History of the Internet

The History of the Internet

History of the Internet

The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a network that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as e-mail, instant messaging, file transfer, and the interlinked We pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The history of the internet really goes back to 1958 with the creation of the satellite system, sputnik, designed by the the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The ARPA lead to the creation the Information Processing Technology Office, IPTO, to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment, or SAGE, program. The sage program contributed to the history of the internet with networked country-wide radar systems for the first time. Then J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.

It wasn't until January 1, 1983 that the first TCP/IP wide area network was operational, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. Most consider this to be the birth date of the internet. Soon after new networks emerged, like Usenet, Bitnet, or Sprintnet. The network then gained a public face in the 1990's. On August 6, 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project. This is two years after Tim Berners-Le had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN. The history of the internet goes back much further than one may have believed, this is because of the huge delay in the availability to the general public. So it really is not a relatively new technology.

Birth of the Internet

April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet -

 

April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet

Tony Long  04.07.07 | 2:00 AM

1969: The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.

April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. RFC documents provide a way for engineers and others to kick around new ideas in a public forum; sometimes, these ideas are adopted as new standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

One interesting aspect of the RFC is that each document is issued a unique serial number. An individual paper cannot be overwritten; rather, updates or corrections are submitted on a separate RFC. The result is an ongoing historical record of the evolution of internet standards.

When it comes to the birth of the net, Jan. 1, 1983, also has its supporters. On that date, the National Science Foundation’s university network backbone, a precursor to the World Wide Web, became operational.

 

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