history of internet

1. History of the Internet
WeeSan Lee weesan@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
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First RFC by Steve Crocker.

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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
@ 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's (Harvard PhD
Thesis)

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1974
TCP (Transmission Control
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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 splited into TCP and IP.

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1979
3Com was co-founded by
Bob Metcalfe.

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1981
BITNET (Because It’s 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.
> 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
> 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
> 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
> 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 was 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.
Al Gore invented the
Internet???

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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
> 439M hosts.
10 new computers joined the
Internet every second.

37. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_map_1024.jpg
Internet Map

38. 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_Internet_Hi
story_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.html