History of the Internet

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History of the Internet

• WeeSan Lee weesan_at_cs.ucr.edu

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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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• RFC Request for Comments
• RFC's were invented by Steve Crocker to help
  provide a
• record of the Network Working Group's design of
  the ARPANET.
• Most of us were graduate students and we expected
  that
• a professional crew would show up eventually to
  take over
• the problems we were dealing with... We had
  accumulated
• a few notes, and we decided to put them
  together... The
• basic ground rules were that anyone could say
  anything
• and that nothing was official. And to emphasize
  the point,
• I labeled the notes 'Request for Comments.' I
  never dreamed
• these notes would be distributed through the very
  medium
• we were discussing in these notes.
• Stephen Crocker, The Request For Comments
  Reference
• Guide, RFC 1000, Aug. 1987.

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1970 RFC maintained by Jon Postel (the
RFC-editor). ARPANET used NCP (Network Control
Protocol), first end-to-end protocol
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1971 15 nodes were connected. Ray Tomlinson of
BBN invented email program.
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1972 _at_ was chosen by Ray Tomlinson to separate
the userid and hostname. First
computer-to-computer chat program at UCLA.
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1973 Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe in
his Harvard PhD Thesis
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1974 TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) was
invented by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
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1975 First mailing list was created by Steve
Walker.
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1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out an email.
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1978 TCP divided into TCP and IP.
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1979 3Com was co-founded by Bob Metcalfe.
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1981 BITNET (Because Its Time NETwork) was
started.
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1982 DoD used TCP/IP to inter-connect networks.
Thus, the Internet!!!
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1983 NCP ? TCP/IP. ARPANET was split into ARPANET
and MILNET. BSD included TCP/IP.
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1984 DNS (Domain Name System) was introduced. gt
1000 hosts.
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1986 NSFNET was created, connecting 5
super-computers. IETF was formed. NNTP was
created.
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1987 gt 10,000 hosts.
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1988 First Internet Worm released by Morris. CERT
(Computer Emergency Response Team) was formed as
a result. IRC was created.
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1989 gt 100,000 hosts
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1990 ARPANET ceased. AOL, CompuServe provided
dial-up service.
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1991 WWW was created by Tim Berners-Lee from
CERN. Linux was released by Linus Torvalds.
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1992 gt 1,000,000 hosts. MBONE was created.
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1993 Network Solution, Inc was chosen to provide
domain name registration. www.whitehouse.gov
online. Mosaic browser created.
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1994 NSFNET was transformed to commercial
network. Shopping mall. Can order pizza online.
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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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1996 Browser war (Netscape vs. IE) began. tv.com
sold to CNET for 15,000.
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1997 www.whitehouse.com online. business.com sold
for 150,000
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1998 2M domain names registered. Compaq bought
altavista.com for 3.3M. Google founded. Jon
Postel (RFC-editor) died.
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1999 First online banking. business.com sold for
7.5B Napster released.
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2000 Millennium bug. Dotcom ? dotgone. Clinton
made first webcast.
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2001 Wikipedia launched.
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2002 Myspace launched.
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2003 Facebook launched.
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2005 Vint Cerf joined Google.
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2006 gt 439M hosts. 10 new computers joined the
Internet every second.
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Internet Map
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageInternet_map_10
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Reference

• The History of the Internet
• http//www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.shtml
• http//www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
• Timeline
• http//www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
• http//www.isoc.org/internet/history/2002_0918_Int
  ernet_History_and_Growth.ppt
• Al Gore invented the Internet?
• http//www.eecs.umich.edu/fessler/misc/funny/gore
  ,net.txt
• http//sethf.com/gore/
• Who is managing the Internet?
• http//www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.ht
  ml