Events
The Atlantic cableSputnik 1 launched on Oct. 4, 1957
President Eisenhower became
concerned that the Soviets would
advance faster than the United
States in Technology.Eisenhower approved the creation of the Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA) by the Defense
Department in 1958.
The agency was a "think-tank" of scientist and
engineers.
This agency crafted the United States' first successful
satellite in 18 months.In 1961, the Director of Defense Research and
Engineering (DDR&E) assigns a Command and Control
Project to ARPA.In 1962, the Information Processing Techniques Office
(IPTO) formed to coordinate ARPA's command and
control research.J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990), at
MIT, was made the head of the
Information Processing
Techniques Office (IPTO).
IPTO’s mission was to research
methods for improving the
military's use of computer
technology at the Advanced
Research Projects Agency
(ARPA).Licklider developed the concept of a network for social
interactions via computer in 1962.His "Galactic Network" envisioned a globally interconnected
set of computers through which people could quickly access data
and programs from any site.
He also pushed to have ARPA's contracts moved from the
private sector to universities.Robert Taylor, Licklider’s replacement,
suggested that existing machines could be used to link site sTaylor bullied Larry Roberts into coming to APRA and networking these machines. Larry Roberts sometimes referred to as the “father of the Arpanet.”Dr. Leonard Kleinrock develops the
principle of transmitting data as
“packets” of data rather than a
continuous stream.
He published his first paper
on the subject in 1961.In 1969, ARPA awards a contract to the Bolt, Baranek and
Knewman Corporation to develop a IMP (Interface
Message Processor).
This device breaks data streams into the "packets" of
information.
An IMP allows data from more than one source to be
transmitted over the same transmission line.
This makes the internet possible.
The internet is referred to as a “packet-switching” network.Kleinrock, now at UCLA, is responsible
for the setup an ARPANET in 1969.The Day the Infant Internet uttered its
First Words took place at 22:30 hours on
October 29, 1969.The first planned message to be transmitted over
ARPANET was the word "login"
Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on
ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research
Institute on Oct 29, 1969
They succeeded in transmitting the "l" and the "o" and
then the system crashed!About an hour later, they were able to send the entire word.Initially Arpanet was connected four major computers at
universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford
Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The
contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under
Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969.By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems
Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were
added.By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, CarnegieMellon,
and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In
months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND,
and the U of Illinois plugged in.In 1972 the first public demonstration of the ARPANET
took place at the International Conference on Computer
Communications.Robert Kahn introduced the concept of an open-architecture
network in 1972. NCP had difficulties addressing systems further down-stream from the network.
Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf developed a protocol
called the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP). The fourth version of this protocol is now the standard used by all networks to move data from one place to another.NSFNet was placed in operation in 1985. Sponsored by
the National Science Foundation, it provided a more
advanced network backbone that used high-speed
computing on a supercomputer.ARPANET is shut down in 1989 because it could not
compete with NSFNet in speed and performance. This
was the primary network used by colleges and university
at the time. (NSFNet no long is in operation.)In 1945, Vannevar Bush (Science Advisor to
president Roosevelt during WW2) proposes
Memex.
Memex is conceptual machine that can store vast
amounts of information, in which users have the
ability to create information trails, links of related
texts and illustrations, which can be
stored and used for future reference.
In his view, Memex would act like
the human mind which uses an
“association of thoughts, in
accordance with some intricate web
of trails carried by the cells of the
brain. ” Vannevar BushThe first working hypertext system was developed
at Brown University in 1967, by a team led by
Andries van Dam.
The Hypertext Editing System ran in 128K
memory on an IBM/360 mainframe and was
funded by IBM, who later sold it to the Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center, where
it was used to produce documentation
for the Apollo space program.In 1990, Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
develop hypertext in order to allow scientist working in
particle physics to exchange
information and distribution of
information over the Web begins.In 1992, CERN
develops the first
Graphical BrowserThe computer used for the development of Hypertext was a
NeXT Internet machine developed by Steve Jobs, one of the
founders of Apple Computers. Jobs was asked to return to
Apple Computers in 1997 and the NeXT operating
system is the basis of the current Mac OS.In 1991, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in
California becomes the first Web server in the USA.In 1993, Mosaic is released by the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NASA) at the
University of Illinois.
This graphical browser was developed
by Marc Andreessen, a college student
and part-time employee of NASA.In 1994, Marc Andreeseen leaves NASA to set up his own
company, Mosaic Communications Corp. (now Netscape
Corp.) and hires all of the developers of Mosaic away
from NASA.1994, the first International WWW (W3C) Conference is
held. Later the same year, the WWW Conference
Committee is formed
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