History of the internet

2. What is Internet?
What is network?
Pioneers of Internet
Internet history
Internet growth
Conclusion

3. Plain and simple:
A world wide system of
interconnected networks and
computers

4. A computer network is an
interconnection of a group of
computers.

5. Robert E Kahn is an American computer
scientist, who along with Vinton Cerf
invented the Transmission Control
Protocol and the Internet protocol which
are the heart of the Internet.

7. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union
launched the first satellite called Sputnik.

8. ARPANET was developed under the
direction of the U.S. Advanced Research
Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1969.
The project intended to serve the military
and researchers with multiple paths of
computers linking together for sharing
data’s.

9. It was the world's first
operational packet switching network
and predecessor of the Internet.

10. It connected computers at four
universities across the country. University
of California at Los Angeles, Stanford
Research Institute, University of
California at Santa Barbara and
University of Utah.
First message sent across the network
was supposed to have been “Login”, but
crashed when the letter “G” was typed in.
The second attempt was successful.

11. Electronic mail is introduced in 1972 by
Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, computer
scientist.

12. He used the @ to distinguish between the
sender's name and network name in the
email address.
With 1973- 75% of the traffic was E-mail.
Despite what the world wide web offers,
email remains the most important
application of the Internet and the most
widely used facility it has.

13. In 1984 Domain Name System(DNS) was
established with network addresses
identified by extensions such as .com, .org,
and .edu
Writer William Gibson coins the term
“cyberspace.”

14. Fueled by the popularity of the web, the
use of the Internet exploded after 1990.
This forced the US Government to
turnover management of the net to
independent organizations beginning in
1995.
That brings us to the modern day use of
the World Wide Web (www).

15. In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee of CERN
(European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
developed a new technique for distributing
information on the Internet. He calls it the
World Wide Web.

16. Mosaic was developed by Marc Andreeson
in 1993.
It was the first Internet Web Browser.
It becomes the dominant navigating
system for the World Wide Web, which at
this time accounts for merely 1% of all
Internet traffic.

17. The internet has deeply ingrained in our
culture and our daily lives as a…
Source of news, facts and figures
Communication tool
Banking
Shopping
An educational and entertainment
medium.

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