Internet History

Internet History

1. Scientific revolutions.

   • First
     • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
       • Heliocentric cosmology
   • Second
     • Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
       • Evolution Theory
   • Third
     • Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
       • defence mechanism of repression
   • Fourth
     • information revolution

2. Internet

   • Inception as an idea
     • 1950s until the early 21st Century
     • Scientists wished to maintain communication links between distant locations.
   • The early Internet
     • research units, universities, and telecommunication companies
       • grew in the 60s and 70s
         • Network of computers that transmitted information by “packet switching.”
         • August 1962
           • The first Paper on the concept of the Internet.
             • "On-Line Man Computer Communication"
         • In 1972
           • TELNET
             • Minimal mechanism that permitted basic communication between two host machines
         • 1973
           • FTP
             • Share files between machines
   • Multi-platform network
     • 1990s
       • United States and then expanded globally
       • 1993
         • There were 623 Websites in the world
   • 1980s
     • The Internet entered its commercial phase
     • 1984
       • The number of computers increased to 1024
   • 2001
     • There were 513 million Netusers

3. program that allowed communication

   • TALK was the first program that allowed Netusers to engage in a real-time conversation over the network

4. Protocols

   • Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn
     • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
       • Rules that computers on a network use to establish and break connections
     • Internet Protocol (IP).
       • rules for routing of individual data packets

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