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History of the internet
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The Atlantic cable
Sputnik 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 Bush
The 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 Browser
The 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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