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"ARPA found a way that computers can talk to eachother in case of nuclear attack. "
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ARPANET a key step was taken by S. Crocker (then at UCLA) in establishing the Request for Comments (or RFC) series of notes. These memos were intended to be an informal fast distribution way to share ideas with other network researchers. At first the RFCs were printed on paper and distributed via snail mail. As the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) came into use, the RFCs were prepared as online files and accessed via FTP
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Brief historyFour host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET
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" the first hosts on what would one day become the internet."
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'Network between Harvard , MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
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" Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who had made the decision to use the @ symbol to separatethe uuser name from the computer name. ( which later on became the domain name .)
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The idea of open-architecture networking was first introduced by Kahn shortly after having arrived at DARPA.
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" A proposal was published to a link Arpa-like networks together into a so -called "inter-network" whihc would have no central control and would work around a transmission control portocol ( which eventually became TCP/IP)"
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first book
Kleinrock published the first book on the ARPANET. It included an emphasis on the complexity of protocols and the pitfalls they often introduce. This book was influential in spreading the lore of packet switching networks to a very wide community. -
"The modern was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,and was introduced and intially sold to computer hobbyists."
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"The first unsolicited commercial email message ( later known as spam) was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk."
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The precusor to the World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD ( short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games , interactive, fiction ,and online chat.
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Widespread development of LANS, PCs and workstations in the 1980s allowed the nascent Internet to flourish -
" The first emottican was used while many people credit Kevin Mackenzie with the invention of the emotican in 1979 , it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who was proposed using :--) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by Mackenzie."
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Transitions
One of the more interesting challenges was the transition of the ARPANET host protocol from NCP to TCP/IP -
brief when Barry Leiner took over management of the Internet research program at DARPA, he and Clark recognized that the continuing growth of the Internet community demanded a restructuring of the coordination mechanisms. The ICCB was disbanded and in its place a structure of Task Forces was formed, each focused on a particular area of the technology (e.g. routers, end-to-end protocols, etc.).
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The first domain Name Servers (DNS) was created . the domain name system was imported in that it made addresses on the internet more than human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically.
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well establishedInternet was already well established as a technology supporting a broad community of researchers and developers, and was beginning to be used by other communities for daily computer communications.
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kahnBoth Kahn and Leiner left DARPA and there was a significant decrease in Internet activity at DARPA. As a result, the IAB was left without a primary sponsor and increasingly assumed the mantle of leadership.
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the first Interop trade show was born. 50 companies made the cut. 5,000 engineers from potential customer organizations came to see if it all did work as was promised. -
The code for the world wide web was written by Tim Berners-lee on his proposal from the years berfore, along with the standards for HTML,HTTP , and urls
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Brought soem major innovations to the world of the internet. The first web page was created and much like the first email explained what the email was, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was.
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briefYet another reorganization took place. In 1992, the Internet Activities Board was re-organized and re-named the Internet .
