Internet: The Internet "An
elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare
combination!" -
Steve Crocker, invented the Internet RFC's
Internet History
The collection of people, hardware, and software - the multiaccess computer together with its local community of users -- will become a node in a geographically distributed computer network. Let us assume for a moment that such a network has been formed.
The Internet is a large, complex information space that reflects much of the variety of our physical world. The key people, organizations, and events that shaped the development of this remarkable virtual universe are described in the following sections:
The Internet is managed
by a roughly democratic group of policy and technical organizations. The
technical structure of the Internet is made up of a mix of hierarchical
systems, like IP addresses and domain names, and network systems, like packet
switching and routing. The following sections provide more information:
Internet History
The collection of people, hardware, and software - the multiaccess computer together with its local community of users -- will become a node in a geographically distributed computer network. Let us assume for a moment that such a network has been formed.
The Internet is a large, complex information space that reflects much of the variety of our physical world. The key people, organizations, and events that shaped the development of this remarkable virtual universe are described in the following sections:
- Internet History -- One-Page Summary
- Vannevar Bush and Memex
- Norbert Wiener Invents Cybernetics
- Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)
- Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference
- DARPA/ARPA -- Defense / Advanced Research Project Agency
- J.C.R. Licklider And The Universal Network
- Marshall McLuhan Foresees The Global Village
- Paul Baran Invents Packet Switching
- UK National Physical Laboratories (NPL) & Donald Davies
- IPTO -- Information Processing Techniques Office
- Leonard Kleinrock Helps Build The ARPANET
- Lawrence Roberts Manages The ARPANET Program
- IMP -- Interface Message Processor
- ARPANET -- The First Internet
- NCP -- Network Control Program
- Robert Kahn -- TCP/IP Co-Designer
- Vinton Cerf -- TCP/IP Co-Designer
- TCP/IP Internet Protocol
- CSNET -- Computer Science Network
- NSFNET -- National Science Foundation Network
- EUnet -- European Network
- World Wide Web History
- Ted Nelson Discovers Hypertext
- Douglas Engelbart Develops the Mouse, GUI, and First Hypertext System
- Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Establishes First N.A. Web Site
- Mosaic -- The First Global Web Browser
- Netscape -- The First Commecial Web Browser
- Online Service Rush To The Web
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Web Browser History
- History Of Hypertext Systems
- Timesharing computers
- SNDMSG & READMAIL
- RD
- NRD
- WRD / BANANARD
- MSG
- MS / MH
- RFC 773
- MMDF
- Sendmail
- Commercial Email
How The Internet Works
| The current
incompatibilities of the platforms and tools make it impossible to access
existing information through a common interface, leading to waste of time,
frustration and obsolete answers to simple data lookup. There is a potential
large benefit from the integration of a variety of systems in a way which
allows a user to follow links pointing from one piece of information to
another one. - Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau; WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project; 1990. |
- Internet Management
- ISOC -- Internet Society
- IAB -- Internet Architecture Board
- IETF -- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IRTF -- Internet Research Task Force
- ICANN -- Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers
- IANA -- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- NSI -- Network Solutions
- Accredited Domain Name Registrars
- NSF -- National Science Foundation
- Internet Architecture
- Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
- Domain Name System (DNS)
