Internet History and Growth
By Er. Anil Chaulagain
Agenda
Internet History
Internet Evolution
Internet Pioneers
Internet Growth Sept. 1969 Sept. 2002
Conclusion
What Was the
Victorian Internet?
What Was the
Victorian Internet
The Telegraph
Invented in the 1840s.
Signals sent over wires that were
established over vast distances
Used extensively by the U.S.
Government during the American
Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Morse Code was dots and dashes,
or short signals and long signals
The electronic signal standard of
+/- 15 v. is still used in network
interface cards today.
What Is the Internet?
A network of networks, joining many government,
university and private computers together and
providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail,
bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents,
databases and other computational resources
The vast collection of computer networks which
form and act as a single huge network for transport
of data and messages across distances which can be
anywhere from the same office to anywhere in the
world.
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The largest network of networks in the
world.
Uses TCP/IP protocols and packet switching .
Runs on any communications substrate.
What is the Internet?
From Dr. Vinton Cerf,
Co-Creator of TCP/IP
Brief History of the Internet
1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create
ARPAnet
1970 - First five nodes:
UCLA
Stanford
UC Santa Barbara
U of Utah, and
BBN
1974 - TCP specification by Vint Cerf
1984 On January 1, the Internet with its 1000 hosts
converts en masse to using TCP/IP for its messaging
A Brief Summary of the
Evolution of the Internet
1945 1995
Memex
Conceived
1945
WWW
Created
1989
Mosaic
Created
1993
A
Mathematical
Theory of
Communication
1948
Packet
Switching
Invented
1964
Silicon
Chip
1958
First Vast
Computer
Network
Envisioned
1962
ARPANET
1969
TCP/IP
Created
1972
Internet
Named
and
Goes
TCP/IP
1984
Hypertext
Invented
1965
Age of
eCommerce
Begins
1995
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From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow
1940s to 1969
1945 1969
We can access
information using
electronic computers
We do it reliably with bits,
sending and receiving data
We can do it cheaply by using
Digital circuits etched in silicon.
We can accomplish a lot by having a
vast network of computers to use for
accessing information and exchanging ideas
We will prove that packet switching
works over a WAN.
Packet switching can be used to
send digitized data though
computer networks
Hypertext can be used to allow
rapid access to text data
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From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow
1970s to 1995
1970 1995
Ideas from
1940s to 1969
We need a protocol for Efficient
and Reliable transmission of
Packets over a WAN: TCP/IP
The ARPANET needs to convert to
a standard protocol and be renamed to
The Internet
Computers connected via the Internet can be used
more easily if hypertext links are enabled using HTML
and URLs: its called World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is easier to use if we have a browser that
To browser web pages, running in a graphical user interface context.
Great efficiencies can be accomplished if we use
The Internet and the World Wide Web to conduct business.
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The Creation of the Internet
The creation of the Internet solved the following
challenges:
Basically inventing digital networking as we know it
Survivability of an infrastructure to send / receive high-speed
electronic messages
Reliability of computer messaging
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