Internet history

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What is the Internet?

• A world-wide network of computers allows people to share information electronically • Like a BIG book with many web-pages on different topics • Can be accessed anywhere with an Internet connection

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Internet Hosts 1969 ARPANET was born. 4 nodes were inter-connected: UCLA,SRI,UCSB, U. of Utah Charley Kline from UCLA sent 1st packet.

First RFC by Steve Crocker.

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Internet Hosts 1970 RFC maintained by Jon Postel (the RFC-editor).

ARPANET used NCP (Network Control Protocol), first end-toend protocol

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Internet Hosts 1971 15 nodes were connected.

Ray Tomlinson of BBN invented email program.

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Internet Hosts 1972 @ was chosen by Ray Tomlinson to separate the userid and hostname.

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Internet Hosts 1973 Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe's (Harvard PhD Thesis)

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Internet Hosts 1974 TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) was invented by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.

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Internet Hosts 1975 First mailing list was created by Steve Walker.

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Internet Hosts 1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out an email.

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Internet Hosts 1978 TCP splited into TCP and IP.

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Internet Hosts 1979 3Com was co-founded by Bob Metcalfe.

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Internet Hosts 1981 BITNET (Because It’s Time NETwork) was started.

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Internet Hosts 1982 DoD used TCP/IP to interconnect networks. Thus, the Internet!!!

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Internet Hosts 1983 NCP → TCP/IP. ARPANET was split into ARPANET and MILNET. BSD included TCP/IP.

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Internet Hosts 1984 DNS (Domain Name System) was introduced.

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Internet Hosts 1986 NSFNET was created, connecting 5 super-computers.

IETF was formed.

NNTP was created.

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Internet Hosts 1987 > 10,000 hosts.

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Internet Hosts 1988 First Internet Worm released by Morris.

CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) was formed as a result.

IRC was created.

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Internet Hosts 1989 > 100,000 hosts

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Internet Hosts 1990 ARPANET ceased.

AOL, CompuServe provided dial-up service.

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Internet Hosts 1991 WWW was created by Tim Berners-Lee from CERN. Linux was released by Linus Torvalds.

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Internet Hosts 1992 > 1,000,000 hosts.

MBONE was created.

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Internet Hosts 1993 Network Solution, Inc was chosen to provide domain name registration. www.whitehouse.gov online.

Mosaic was created.

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Internet Hosts 1994 NSFNET was transformed to commercial network.

Shopping mall.

Can order pizza online.

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Internet Hosts 1995 NSFNET was reverted back to research-only network.

Realaudio started.

Netscape IPO. Win95 released.

Bob Metcalfe predicted the Internet would collapse.

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Internet Hosts 1996 Browser war (Netscape vs. IE) began. tv.com sold to CNET for $15,000.

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Internet Hosts 1997 www.whitehouse.com online. business.com sold for $150,000

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Internet Hosts 1998 2M domain names registered.

Compaq bought altavista.com for $3.3M. Google founded.

Jon Postel (RFC-editor) died.

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Internet Hosts 1999 First online banking. business.com sold for $7.5B Napster released.

Al Gore invented the Internet???

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Internet Hosts 2000 Millennium bug.

Dotcom → dotgone.

Clinton made first webcast.

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Internet Hosts 2001 Wikipedia launched.

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Internet Hosts 2002 Myspace launched.

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Internet Hosts 2003 Facebook launched.

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Internet Hosts 2005 Vint Cerf joined Google.

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Internet Hosts 2006 > 439M hosts.

10 new computers joined the Internet every second.

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Internet Map

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