History of the Internet

By badaxe

  • first network proposed

    brief history of the internetJ.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962,

  • first dial-up telephone lines

    Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines.

  • developed his plan for ARPANET.

    History of the InternetRoberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET.
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    The Internet, then known as ARPANET

    ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969
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    Systems Development

    By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were addedBy January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.

  • the first E-mail

    E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972. He picked the @ symbol from the available symbols on his teletype to link the username and address
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    enabling file transfers between Internet sites

    The telnet protocol, enabling logging on to a remote computer, was published as a Request for Comments (RFC) in 1972. RFC's are a means of sharing developmental work throughout community. The ftp protocol, enabling file transfers between Internet sites, was published as an RFC in 1973
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    replacing the earlier Network Control

    It was adopted by the Defense Department in 1980 replacing the earlier Network Control Protocol (NCP) and universally adopted by 1983.

  • backbone for the Internet

    In 1986, the National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as a cross country 56 Kbps backbone for the Internet
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    information about library catalogs and other telnet resources

    Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan, recognizing the need to bring together information about all the telnet-accessible library catalogs on the web, as well as other telnet resources, brought out his Hytelnet catalog in 1990. It gave a single place to get information about library catalogs and other telnet resources and how to use them. He maintained it for years, and added HyWebCat in 1997 to provide information on web-based catalogs.

  • The release of Windows 98

    The release of Windows 98 in June 1998 with the Microsoft browser well integrated into the desktop shows Bill Gates' determination to capitalize on the enormous growth of the Internet