History of the Internet

WeeSan Lee weesan@cs.ucr.edu

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200 1969
ARPANET was born. 4
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UCLA,SRI,UCSB, U. of Utah
140 Charley Kline from UCLA
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100 First RFC by Steve Crocker.
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200 1970
RFC maintained by Jon
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200 1971
15 nodes were connected.
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Ray Tomlinson of BBN
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200 1972
@ was chosen by Ray
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Tomlinson to separate the
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userid and hostname.
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100 chat program at UCLA.
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200 1973
Ethernet was invented by
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Bob Metcalfe's (Harvard PhD
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200 1974
TCP (Transmission Control
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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
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200 1975
First mailing list was created
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by Steve Walker.
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200 1976
Queen Elizabeth II sent out
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an email.
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200 1979
3Com was co-founded by
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Bob Metcalfe.
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180000 1981
160000 BITNET (Because Its Time
NETwork) was started.
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180000 1982
160000 DoD used TCP/IP to inter-
connect networks. Thus, the
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Internet!!!
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180000 1983
160000 NCP TCP/IP.
ARPANET was split into
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ARPANET and MILNET.
120000 BSD included TCP/IP.
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180000 1984
160000 DNS (Domain Name System)
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180000 1986
160000 NSFNET was created,
connecting 5 super-
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computers.
120000 IETF was formed.
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180000 1987
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180000 1988
160000 First Internet Worm released
by Morris.
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CERT (Computer Emergency
120000 Response Team) was formed
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80000 IRC was created.
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180000 1989
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25000000 1990
ARPANET ceased.
20000000 AOL, CompuServe provided
dial-up service.
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25000000 1991
WWW was created by
20000000 Tim Berners-Lee from CERN.
Linux was released by Linus
Torvalds.
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25000000 1992
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20000000 MBONE was created.
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25000000 1993
Network Solution, Inc was
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name registration.
www.whitehouse.gov online.
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Mosaic was created.
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25000000 1994
NSFNET was transformed to
20000000 commercial network.
Shopping mall.
Can order pizza online.
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25000000 1995
NSFNET was reverted back
20000000 to research-only network.
Realaudio started.
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Win95 released.
Bob Metcalfe predicted the
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25000000 1996
Browser war (Netscape vs.
20000000 IE) began.
tv.com sold to CNET for
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25000000 1997
www.whitehouse.com online.
20000000 business.com sold for
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25000000 1998
2M domain names registered.
20000000 Compaq bought altavista.com
for $3.3M.
Google founded.
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Jon Postel (RFC-editor) died.
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25000000 1999
First online banking.
20000000 business.com sold for $7.5B
Napster released.
Al Gore invented the
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25000000 2000
Millennium bug.
20000000 Dotcom dotgone.
Clinton made first webcast.
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25000000 2006
> 439M hosts.
20000000 10 new computers joined the
Internet every second.
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Reference

The History of the Internet

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.shtml
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/2002_0918_Internet_Hi
story_and_Growth.ppt
Al Gore invented the Internet?
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt
http://sethf.com/gore/
Who is managing the Internet?
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html