This was the beginning of long term experimentation and development to evolve and mature the Internet concepts and technology. Beginning with the first three networks ARPANET, Packet Radio, and Packet Satellite and their initial research communities, the experimental environment has grown to incorporate essentially every form of network and a very broad-based research and development community. When desktop computers first appeared, it was thought by some that TCP was too big and complex to run on a personal computer.
That implementation was fully interoperable with other TCPs, but was tailored to the application suite and performance objectives of the personal computer, and showed that workstations, as well as large time-sharing systems, could be a part of the Internet.
It included an emphasis on the complexity of protocols and the pitfalls they often introduce. This book was influential in spreading the lore of packet switching networks to a very wide community. This change from having a few networks with a modest number of time-shared hosts the original ARPANET model to having many networks has resulted in a number of new concepts and changes to the underlying technology. First, it resulted in the definition of three network classes A, B, and C to accommodate the range of networks.
Class A represented large national scale networks small number of networks with large numbers of hosts ; Class B represented regional scale networks; and Class C represented local area networks large number of networks with relatively few hosts. A major shift occurred as a result of the increase in scale of the Internet and its associated management issues.
To make it easy for people to use the network, hosts were assigned names, so that it was not necessary to remember the numeric addresses. Originally, there were a fairly limited number of hosts, so it was feasible to maintain a single table of all the hosts and their associated names and addresses.
The shift to having a large number of independently managed networks e. The DNS permitted a scalable distributed mechanism for resolving hierarchical host names e. The increase in the size of the Internet also challenged the capabilities of the routers.
Originally, there was a single distributed algorithm for routing that was implemented uniformly by all the routers in the Internet. As the number of networks in the Internet exploded, this initial design could not expand as necessary, so it was replaced by a hierarchical model of routing, with an Interior Gateway Protocol IGP used inside each region of the Internet, and an Exterior Gateway Protocol EGP used to tie the regions together.
This design permitted different regions to use a different IGP, so that different requirements for cost, rapid reconfiguration, robustness and scale could be accommodated. Not only the routing algorithm, but the size of the addressing tables, stressed the capacity of the routers.
New approaches for address aggregation, in particular classless inter-domain routing CIDR , have recently been introduced to control the size of router tables. As the Internet evolved, one of the major challenges was how to propagate the changes to the software, particularly the host software.
Looking back, the strategy of incorporating Internet protocols into a supported operating system for the research community was one of the key elements in the successful widespread adoption of the Internet.
This enabled defense to begin sharing in the DARPA Internet technology base and led directly to the eventual partitioning of the military and non- military communities. Thus, by , Internet was already 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. Electronic mail was being used broadly across several communities, often with different systems, but interconnection between different mail systems was demonstrating the utility of broad based electronic communications between people.
At the same time that the Internet technology was being experimentally validated and widely used amongst a subset of computer science researchers, other networks and networking technologies were being pursued.
The usefulness of computer networking — especially electronic mail — demonstrated by DARPA and Department of Defense contractors on the ARPANET was not lost on other communities and disciplines, so that by the mids computer networks had begun to spring up wherever funding could be found for the purpose. The U. NSFNET programs to explicitly announce their intent to serve the entire higher education community, regardless of discipline.
Indeed, a condition for a U. When Steve Wolff took over the NSFNET program in , he recognized the need for a wide area networking infrastructure to support the general academic and research community, along with the need to develop a strategy for establishing such infrastructure on a basis ultimately independent of direct federal funding.
Policies and strategies were adopted see below to achieve that end. It had seen the Internet grow to over 50, networks on all seven continents and outer space, with approximately 29, networks in the United States. A key to the rapid growth of the Internet has been the free and open access to the basic documents, especially the specifications of the protocols. The beginnings of the ARPANET and the Internet in the university research community promoted the academic tradition of open publication of ideas and results.
However, the normal cycle of traditional academic publication was too formal and too slow for the dynamic exchange of ideas essential to creating networks. In a key step was taken by S. These memos were intended to be an informal fast distribution way to share ideas with other network researchers.
At first the RFCs were printed on paper and distributed via snail mail. Jon Postel acted as RFC Editor as well as managing the centralized administration of required protocol number assignments, roles that he continued to play until his death, October 16, When some consensus or a least a consistent set of ideas had come together a specification document would be prepared.
Such a specification would then be used as the base for implementations by the various research teams. The open access to the RFCs for free, if you have any kind of a connection to the Internet promotes the growth of the Internet because it allows the actual specifications to be used for examples in college classes and by entrepreneurs developing new systems.
Email has been a significant factor in all areas of the Internet, and that is certainly true in the development of protocol specifications, technical standards, and Internet engineering. The very early RFCs often presented a set of ideas developed by the researchers at one location to the rest of the community.
After email came into use, the authorship pattern changed — RFCs were presented by joint authors with common view independent of their locations. The use of specialized email mailing lists has been long used in the development of protocol specifications, and continues to be an important tool. The IETF now has in excess of 75 working groups, each working on a different aspect of Internet engineering. Each of these working groups has a mailing list to discuss one or more draft documents under development.
When consensus is reached on a draft document it may be distributed as an RFC. This unique method for evolving new capabilities in the network will continue to be critical to future evolution of the Internet.
The Internet is as much a collection of communities as a collection of technologies, and its success is largely attributable to both satisfying basic community needs as well as utilizing the community in an effective way to push the infrastructure forward.
The early ARPANET researchers worked as a close-knit community to accomplish the initial demonstrations of packet switching technology described earlier. Likewise, the Packet Satellite, Packet Radio and several other DARPA computer science research programs were multi-contractor collaborative activities that heavily used whatever available mechanisms there were to coordinate their efforts, starting with electronic mail and adding file sharing, remote access, and eventually World Wide Web capabilities.
In the late s, recognizing that the growth of the Internet was accompanied by a growth in the size of the interested research community and therefore an increased need for coordination mechanisms, Vint Cerf, then manager of the Internet Program at DARPA, formed several coordination bodies — an International Cooperation Board ICB , chaired by Peter Kirstein of UCL, to coordinate activities with some cooperating European countries centered on Packet Satellite research, an Internet Research Group which was an inclusive group providing an environment for general exchange of information, and an Internet Configuration Control Board ICCB , chaired by Clark.
In , when Barry Leiner took over management 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. The ICCB was disbanded and in its place a structure of Task Forces was formed, each focused on a particular area of the technology e. It of course was only a coincidence that the chairs of the Task Forces were the same people as the members of the old ICCB, and Dave Clark continued to act as chair.
Unlike dial-up networking, Ethernet transmits data at much higher bandwidths. As part of his Ph. Xerox officially filed for the Ethernet patent in , listing Metcalfe, David R.
Boggs, Charles P. Thacker, Butler W. Lampson as co-inventors. Today, Ethernet has grown to immense sizes such as 10 Gigabit, 40 Gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet, which allows for more than enough bandwidth to accommodate data-hungry technologies such as streaming video and applications in the cloud.
After his time with Xerox, Metcalfe went on to start 3Com, a computer networking manufacturer. In , he left the company and spent the next decade as a technology writer and pundit, writing a column for InfoWorld. So you should be in the technological innovation business, at the core of which is science and engineering. It's the highest calling, to be in technological innovation. Democracy, freedom, prosperity, they all stem from technological innovation.
These three components have made up what we consider the web for the past 20 years. His idea initially fell on deaf ears, but ultimately he got the go-ahead to experiment with a few NeXT computers, which he then used to bring his global hypertext idea to life. His accolades are numerous, but perhaps the highest honor was being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England in for his pioneering work in creating the WWW, granting him the lofty title of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee.
The universality of it from the word go was very important. The big downside of volatile memory? Once the power is turned off, the data is lost. In the early s, Dr. Fujio Masuoka dreamed of developing and perfecting a nonvolatile memory chip that could retain data even when its power source had been shut off.
The technology is now used to store data in cell phones, digital camera and USB flash drives. Toshiba at the time was largely unconvinced of the potential of flash memory, so the company gave him a small bonus and did little to take advantage of the lead it had with flash storage, according to a Forbes article. Fujio Masuoka on why he invented flash storage in a BusinessWeek article.
Thompson continued at Bell Labs until and now works at Google as a distinguished engineer. I'd write a program during the day, and at night I'd sit there and walk through it line by line and find bugs. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished.
Tim Berners-Lee was the first to create a piece of software that could present HTML documents in an easy-to-read format.
However, this original application had limited use as it could only be used on advanced NeXT machines. Mosaic was also the first browser to display images next to text, rather than in a separate window. They led the company to create Netscape Navigator, a widely used internet browser that at the time was faster and more sophisticated than any of the competition.
By , Navigator had around 10 million global users. The enormous excitement surrounding the internet led to a massive boom in new technology shares between and Investors in the stock market began to believe the hype and threw themselves into a frenzy of activity. The internet was thought to be central to economic growth, while share prices implied that new online companies carried the seeds for expansion. This led in turn to a feverish level of investment and unrealistic expectations about rates of return.
We are riding the early waves of a year run of a greatly expanding economy that will do much to solve seemingly intractable problems like poverty and to ease tensions throughout the world.
Venture capitalists flourished and many companies were founded on dubious business plans. The most notorious of these was the high fashion online retailer Boo. However, despite their failure, such businesses helped cause a fundamental transformation and left an important legacy. Many investors lost money, but they also helped to finance the new system and lay the groundwork for future success in ecommerce.
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The origins of the internet The origins of the internet are rooted in the USA of the s. The first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a small house. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in , when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
The web helped popularize the internet among the public, and served as a crucial step in developing the vast trove of information that most of us now access on a daily basis. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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