When the original conceptual foundation of the Internet was laid back in
the 50s, no one had the slightest idea of how far this project would
go. At those insecure post-war times of alienation and deepening
political division, the vision of the Internet as we see it today, was
only a matter of science fiction dreaming. Starting as a military
project in the United States, it quickly became very popular in several
other countries.
Now, several decades later, with the spread of the democratic lifestyle
and the amazing technological progress, we all witness the existence of a
parallel world of unlimited communication possibilities that occupies
an increasing part of our daily routine with the sole purpose of
facilitating our lives.
History of the Internet:
Mid 1960: Papers on “Packet
Switching” emerge.
End 1969s: ARPA sponsors the
development of a packet-switching network, called the
ARPANET. First four nodes are UCLA, SRI, U. Utah, UCSB.
1974: The TCP/IP protocols and model are being
proposed by Cerf/Kahn.
1980: IPv4 is introduced.
1983: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP. At
this time, the ARPANET has 200 routers.
1984: NSF funds a TCP/IP based
backbone network. This backbone grows into the
NSFNET,
which becomes the successor of the ARPANET.
1995: NSF stops funding of
NSFNET. The Internet is completely commercial.
Time line of the Internet:
Then we discussed about web page, browser and web engine.
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