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ARPANET and Nuclear War
Packet switching breaks data down into blocks, or packets, before sending it to its destination. That way, each packet can take its own route from place to place. Without packet switching, the government’s computer network—now known as the ARPAnet—would have been just as vulnerable to enemy attacks as the phone system. It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started, claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. -
First Host to Host connection
- Four sites are selected. At each, a team gets to work on producing the software to enable its computers and the IMP to communicate. After installation in September, handwritten logs from UCLA show the first host-to-host connection, from UCLA to SRI, is made on October 29, 1969. The first 'Log-In' crashes the SRI host, but the next attempt works.
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Node Network Diagrams
Only 4 ARPANET networks in total -
First Email Sent
Ray Tomlinson, of BBN sent the first network e-mail -
Node Network Diagrams
Now 14 ARPANET networks -
Node Network Diagrams
Now over 100 networks linked together -
Internet Explorer Released
Internet explorer was released by Micosoft -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee made a proposal for an information management system and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet -
Mosaic
the first proper web-browser, Mosaic developed. -
Netscape Corporation Created
Marc Andreesen founded Netscape Corporation -
Internet Service providers
ISP’s started to become large scale with AOL and CompuServe -
ICANN
- ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and it established a process for transitioning DNS from US Government management to industry