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History Of the Internet

By GwennBates

  • The idea

    The idea
    The first recorded description of interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos J.C.R. Licklider discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. This is similar to the internet of today.

  • The first Network

    The first Network
    Lawrence G. Roberts is the first man to create a rudimentary computer network. He connected his computer in Mass to another computer in California via a low-speed dial up telephone line.

  • The ARPANET

    The ARPANET
    This is a concept that started in 1966 as a way to communicate using a network. It had a lot of military appeal.

  • ARPANET's first message

    ARPANET's first message
    The ARPANET delivers its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another.

  • USENET

    "The idea of network news was born in 1979 when two graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, thought of using UUCP to connect machines for the purpose of information exchange among users. They set up a small network of three machines in North Carolina." -https://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node256.html This rudimentary network was used for the exchange of news.

  • Domain Name System (DNS)

    The conclusion in this area was that the current "user@host" mailbox identifier should be extended to "user@host.domain" where "domain" could be a hierarchy of domains.
    • J. Postel; Computer Mail Meeting Notes, RFC 805; 8 Feb 1982
    The DNS was originally created to support email communications on the ARPANET, but now supports the internet on a global scale.
    Domain names were created to provide each person with one address regardless of where email was sent from.
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    TCP/IP

    "The Internet protocol suite resulted from research and development conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the late 1960s. After initiating the pioneering ARPANET in 1969, DARPA started work on a number of other data transmission technologies" - Wikipedia
    The official procedure or system of rules, or protocols, are what govern the way the internet functions and is used.

  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee was the first to conceive the "World Wide Web". He proposed that one could simply click a word in a document and, through hyperlinks, travel to another document with a hyperlink on it, and so on and so fourth. Like a "Web" you could use to spider across the internet.

  • Gopher

    When Tim Berners Lee proposed his idea for the World Wide Web, most people did not think it was very promising and instead opted to go with Gopher: With minimal computer knowledge, you could download an interface — the Gopher — and begin searching the internet, retrieving information linked to it from anywhere in the world. The Gopher was a document retrieval protocol that made it much easier to find documents on the internet.

  • HTML

    HTML
    HTML was developed along side the World Wide Web by Tim Berners Lee. HTML is an internet markup language used to create web pages.

  • The World Wide Web Takes Off

    This is the first year the World Wide Web got more internet traffic than Gopher. A few years later Gopher was dead and the World Wide web took over.