The History of The Internet

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The History of The Internet

• By,
• Joseph Matchett IV

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The History of the Internet

• The internet has revolutionize the computer and
  communications world like nothing before.
  Finally, the internet has world-wide broadcasting
  capabilities.

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The History of the Internet

• The internet today is a widespread information
  infrastructure, the initial prototype of what is
  often called the National or (Global or Galactic)
  Information Infrastructure. The Internet
  represents one of the most successful examples of
  the benefits of sustained investment and
  commitment to research and development.

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The History of the Internet

• The First Record description of Networking was
  written in a series of memos by J.C.R. Licklider
  of MIT in 1962.
• In late 1966 Lawrence G. Roberts went to DARPA to
  develop the computer network concept and quickly
  put together plans for the ARPANET

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The History of the Internet

• In 1964 Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the
  first paper on PACKET SWITCHING in 1964.
• This concept was introduced instead of using
  circuits, which as a major step along the path
  toward computer networking.
• The other concept was to make computers to talk
  together.

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The History of the Internet

• To explore this concept, in 1965 Kleinrock along
  with Thomas Merrill and Lawrence Roberts
  connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to
  the Q-32 in California with low speed dial-up
  telephone line creating the first small wide-area
  network.

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The History of the Internet

• Computers were added quickly to the ARPANET .
• December 1970 the Network Working Group (NWG)
  finished the initial ARPNET Host-to-Host
  protocol, called the Network Control Protocol
  (NCP) this was completed during the period from
  1971-1972.

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The History of the Internet

• In October 1972, Robert E. Kahn introduced the
  ARPNET at the International Computer
  Communication Conference . The was also the
  introduction of the hot application ,
  electronic mail (e-mail).
• This was largest network application for over a
  decade.

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The History of the Internet

• This was a harbinger of the kind of activity we
  see on the World-Wide-Web today, namely, the
  enormous growth of all kinds of people-to-people
  traffic.