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Origins of the Internet
Leonard Kleinrock al MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory.
Recall that Kleinrock had shown that packet switching was a more efficient switching method. -
Origins of the Internet
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enable througth networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT discusing his ´´Galactic Network´´ concept. -
Origins of the Internet
Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA. -
Origins of the Internet
Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first book on the subject.
MIT proceeded in parallel without any of the researches knowing about the other work.
The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks secure voice in the military. -
Origins of the Internet
The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass.
RAND proceded in parallel without any of the researches knowing about the other work. -
Origins of the Internet
Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept. -
Origins of the Internet
The develop computer network concept developed by Roberts in DARPA Quickly put together his plan for the ´´ARPANET´´, and plublished.
At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Sclantebury of NPL. Scanteblury told Roberts about NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others and RAND.
NPL proceeded in parallel without any of the researches knowing about the other work. -
Origins of the Internet
BBn installed first IMP at UCLA and the first host computer was connected.
At the end, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET and the budding Internet was off the ground -
Origins of the Internet
The RFQ was won by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman. -
The Role of Documentation
A key step was taken by S. Croker in stablishing the Request for Comments series notes. -
1970s sucessions releated to the Internet
The Network Working Group (NWG) working under S.
LANs began to appear.
Made clear that in some cases packet losses should mot be corrected by TCP resulted in a version that inly allowed for virtual circuits.
Coputer networks had begun to sprind up wherever funding could be found for purpose.
Recognizing that the growth of the Internet was accompained by a growth in the size of the interested research community and therefore an increasesd need for coordination mechanims. -
Origins of the Internet
The idea of open-architecture networking was first introduced by kahn shortly after having arrived at DARPA.
Hot aplication and electronic email appiered.
Kahn organised a large demostration of the ARPANET at (ICCC). -
Initial Intterneting Concepts
Asked Vint Cerf to work with him on the detailed desing of the protocol.
The give and take was highly productive and the first written version of the resulting approach was distributed at a special meeting of the (INWG) which had been set up at a conference at Sussex University.
Ethernet technology, developed by Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, now probably the dominant network technology in the Internet and PCs and workstations the dominant computers. -
Providing ideas
Kleinrock published the fisrt book on the ARPANET: -
Providing Ideas
Widespread development of LANS, PCs and Workstation allowed the nascent Internet to fourish.
TCP/Ip was adopted as a defense standard three years earlier.
Internet grew beyond its primarily research roots to include both a vroad user community and increased commercial activity.
Dozens of vendors were incorporating TCP/IP into their products because they saw buyers for that approach to networking. -
Transition to Widespread Infrasctructure
Ira Fuch and Greydon Freeman Devised BITNET, which linked academic mainframe computers in an ´´email as card images´´ paradigm.
An unprecedented agreement between Farber, acting for CSNET and NSF, and DARPA´s Kahn, permitted CSNET traffic to share ARPANET infrastructure on a statistical and nomatered-settlements basis. -
Formation of the Broad Community
Barry Leiner took over managment 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.
Flag-day style transition, requiring all hosts to convert simultaneusly or be left having to communicate via rather ad-hoc mechanims.
ARPANET was bwing used by a significant number of defense RYD and operational organizations. -
Transition to Widespread Infrastructure
It remained for the British JANET program to explicitly announce their intent to serve the entire higher education community, regardless of discipline. -
Formation of the Broad Community
Internet was alredy 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.
U.S: NSFNET program to explicitly announce their intent to serve the entire higher education community, regardless of discipline.
Dennins Jennings came from Ireland to spend a year at NSF leading the NSFNET program.There was a tremendous growth in the more practical side of Internet. -
Commercialization of the Technology
Became clear that a protocol was needed that wouldpermit the elements of the network, such us the routers, to be remotelymanaged in a uniform way. -
Transition to Widespread Infracstructure
This process of privately-financed augmentation for commercial uses was thrashed out starting
National Research Council comittee.
First Interop trade show was born. -
Transition to widespread Infracstructure
ARPANET itself was finally decommissioned. -
Formation of the broad Community
This coupled with a recognised need for community support of the Internet eventually led to the formation of the Internet Society, under corporation fot CRNI. -
Formation of the Broad Community
Internet Activities Broad was reaorganized. -
Transition to Widespread Infrastructure
National Research Council report, again chaired by Kleinrock. -
Transition to Widespread Infrastructure
NSFs privatization policy culminated. -
The Role of Documentation
Jon Postel acted as RFC Editor as well as managing the centralized administration of required protocol number assigmaents, roles that he continued to play until his dead.
