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History of the Internet
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Dr. Jospeh Carl Robnet Licklidir heads ARPA's research
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UCLA ARPA proposal
UCLA proposes to organize & run a network measurement center for the ARPAnet project -
First cross-country link
1970:
First cross-country link installed by AT&T between UCLA and BBN at 56kbps. This line is later replaced by another between BBN and RAND. A second line is added between MIT and Utah -
The @ sign was chosen for email
Ray Tomlinson (BBN) modifies email program for ARPANET where it becomes a quick hit. The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype for its "at" meaning (March) -
Network Protocols
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection" which specified in detail the design of a Transmission Control Program (TCP). [IEEE Trans Comm] BBN opens Telenet, the first public packet data service (a commercial version of ARPANET) (:sk2:) -
MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games
MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
BITNET-Because It's Time NETwork
BITNET, the "Because It's Time NETwork"
• Started as a cooperative network at the City University of New York, with the first connection to Yale
• Original acronym stood for 'There' instead of 'Time' in reference to the free NJE protocols provided with the IBM systems
• Provides electronic mail and listserv servers to distribute information, as well as file transfers -
Desktops cometo being
Desktop workstations come into being, many with Berkeley UNIX (4.2 BSD) which includes IP networking software Networking needs switch from having a single, large time sharing computer connected to the Internet at each site, to instead connecting entire local networks -
1988: First major malicious internet-based attack
One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988. Referred to as "The Morris Worm", it was written by Robert Tappan Morris -
1996: First web-based (webmail) service
HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are an homage to HTML), the first webmail service, was launched. -
1998: First new story to be broken online instead of traditional media
In 1998, the first major news story to be broken online was the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal -
2005: YouTube – streaming video for the masses
