History of The Internet
History of The Internet
History of The Internet
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DO NOT
UNDERESTIMATE THE
POWER OF THE NET
and NETIZENS
In recognition that the
net represents a
revolution in human
communications that
was built by a
cooperative non-
commercial
process, the following
Declaration of the
Rights of the Netizen
is presented for Netizen
comment.
As Netizens are those
who take responsibility
and care for the
Net, the following are
proposed to be their
rights:
o Universal access at no or low cost
o Freedom of Electronic
Expression to promote
the exchange
of knowledge without
fear of reprisal
o Uncensored
Expression
o Access to Broad
Distribution
o Universal and Equal
access to knowledge
and information
o Consideration of
one's ideas on their
merits
o No limitation to
access to read, to post
and to otherwise
contribute
o Equal quality of
connection
o Equal time of
connection
o No Official
Spokesperson
o Uphold the public
grassroots purpose and
participation
o Volunteer
Contribution - no
personal profit from the
contribution freely
given by others
o Protection of the
public purpose from
those who would use it
for their private and
money making
purposes
Slide source
J.C.R. Licklider may well be one of the most influential people in the history of computer science.
As Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), a division of the Pentagon's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Licklider from 1963-64 put in place the funding
priorities which would lead to the Internet, and the invention of the "mouse," "windows" and
"hypertext." Together these elements comprise the foundation of our networked society, and it
owes much of its existence to the man who held the purse-strings, and also created a
management culture where graduate students were left to run a multi-million dollar research
project.
Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Netizens We Netizens have begun to put together a
Declaration of the Rights of Netizens and are requesting from other Netizens contributions, ideas,
and suggestions of what rights should be included. Following are some beginning ideas. The
Declaration of the Rights of Netizens:
------------------------------------------
In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human communications that was built by a
cooperative non-commercial process, the following Declaration of the Rights of the Netizen is
presented for Netizen comment. As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for the
Net, the following are proposed to be their rights: o Universal access at no or low cost o Freedom
of Electronic Expression to promote the exchange of knowledge without fear of reprisal o
Uncensored Expression o Access to Broad Distribution o Universal and Equal access to knowledge
and information o Consideration of one's ideas on their merits o No limitation to access to read, to
post and to otherwise contribute o Equal quality of connection o Equal time of connection o No
Official Spokesperson o Uphold the public grassroots purpose and participation o Volunteer
Contribution - no personal profit from the contribution freely given by others o Protection of the
public purpose from those who would use it for their private and money making purposes The Net
is not a Service, it is a Right. It is only valuable when it is collective and universal. Volunteer effort
protects the intellectual and technological common-wealth that is being created. DO NOT
UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and NETIZENS. Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969),
Thomas Paine, Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen (1789), NSF Acceptable Use Policy, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the current cry for
democracy worldwide.
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How It All Started
Tim Berners-Lee
1 Dec 2004
Tim Berners-Lee
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
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1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
1945: Vannevar Bush article In Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical mechanical device called
a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on
microfiche
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
1965: Ted Nelson coins the term "Hypertext" in "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing,
and the Indeterminate". 20th National Conference, New York, Association for Computing
Machinery
Pre-W3C Web and Internet Background
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
1971: Ray Tomlinson of BBN creates email program to send messages across a distributed
network.
1972: Tomlinson expands program to ARPANET users, using the "@" sign as part of the address.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
1974: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection", which
specified in detail the design of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
1978: Part of TCP splits off, becoming the Internet Protocol (IP).
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1980: Tim Berners-Lee
1984: Paul Mockapetris
1980: While consulting for CERN, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-
Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1980: Tim Berners-Lee
1984: Paul Mockapetris
Mar: "Information Management: A Proposal" written by Tim Berners-Lee and circulated for
comments at CERN.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
May: Info Management v2
End: WorldWideWeb browser
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
May: Info Management v2
End: WorldWideWeb browser
End 1990: Development begins for first browser (called "WorldWideWeb"), editor, server, and
line-mode browser. Culminates in first Web client-server communication over Internet in
December 1990.
Pre-W3C Web and Internet Background
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Dec: Hypertext '91 Conference in San Antonio, Texas (USA). TBL paper on Web only accepted as
poster session.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jun: Xerox
Aug: MIT/LCS
Dec: Web Server outside Europe
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jun: Xerox
Aug: MIT/LCS
Dec: Web Server outside Europe
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jun: Xerox
Aug: MIT/LCS
Dec: Web Server outside Europe
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jan: Browser numbers
Mar: NCSA Mosaic
Apr: Royalty-free
Jun: Dale Dougherty
Nov: David Gifford
Jan: Number of browsers increasing and includes Midas, Erwise, Viola, and Samba.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jan: Browser numbers
Mar: NCSA Mosaic
Apr: Royalty-free
Jun: Dale Dougherty
Nov: David Gifford
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jan: Browser numbers
Mar: NCSA Mosaic
Apr: Royalty-free
Jun: Dale Dougherty
Nov: David Gifford
Apr: CERN agrees to allow anyone to use Web protocol and code royalty-free.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jan: Browser numbers
Mar: NCSA Mosaic
Apr: Royalty-free
Jun: Dale Dougherty
Nov: David Gifford
Jun: Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly hosts WWW Wizards Workshop in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jan: Browser numbers
Mar: NCSA Mosaic
Apr: Royalty-free
Jun: Dale Dougherty
Nov: David Gifford
Nov: At a Newcastle, U.K. conference, Tim Berners-Lee discusses the future of the Web with MIT's
David Gifford, who suggests that Tim contact Michael Dertouzos.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Mark Andreessen
Internet access
Mark Andreessen and colleagues leave NCSA to form Mosaic Communications Corp., which later
became Netscape.
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Mark Andreessen
Internet access
Traditional dial-up systems (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access.
W3C
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Feb: Michael Dertouzos
Apr: Alan Kotok
Oct: W3C
Feb: Tim Berners-Lee meets Michael Dertouzos in Zurich to discuss possibility of starting new
organization at MIT
W3C
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Feb: Michael Dertouzos
Apr: Alan Kotok
Oct: W3C
Apr: Alan Kotok, then at DEC, visits CERN to discuss creation of Consortium
W3C
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Feb: Michael Dertouzos
Apr: Alan Kotok
Oct: W3C
W3C
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Apr: INRIA
Jun: Content Rating WS
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Apr: INRIA
Jun: Content Rating WS
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jun: Peabody meeting
Sep: Keio University
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Jun: Peabody meeting
Sep: Keio University
W3C
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Next Session
The Impact on Science and Industry by Denis Lacroix (Amadeus e-Travel), Teri Richman (National
Association of Convenience Stores), Moderator: Michel Cosnard (INRIA and ERCIM)
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
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One of the most exciting sources you can check comes from J.C.R. Licklider himself. In two extraordinary papers, Man-Computer
Symbiosis (1960) and The Computer as a Communications Device (1968, co-authored with Robert Taylor), Licklider describes his
vision of computing (1960), which led to the funding priorities of IPTO and helps explain why the Internet was built, and discusses
the future (1968), presciently arguing that by the Year 2000 millions of people would be on-line, connected by a global network. It
seems he was right. Both papers can be downloaded in PDF format. These papers are available for non-commercial use only,
courtesy of Robert Taylor and the Digital Equipment Corporation.
In order to read PDF files, you must have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You may get a copy here.
This article is a draft chapter from Michael Hauben <[email protected]> and Ronda Hauben's
<[email protected]> Netbook titled "The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net."
Commercial use of this writing is prohibited and this draft is being made available for comment.
Please send comments to both of us at [email protected] and [email protected].
============================================================
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DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE
NET and NETIZENS
J.C.R. Licklider may well be one of the most influential people in the history of computer science.
As Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), a division of the Pentagon's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Licklider from 1963-64 put in place the funding
priorities which would lead to the Internet, and the invention of the "mouse," "windows" and
"hypertext." Together these elements comprise the foundation of our networked society, and it
owes much of its existence to the man who held the purse-strings, and also created a
management culture where graduate students were left to run a multi-million dollar research
project.
Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Netizens We Netizens have begun to put together a
Declaration of the Rights of Netizens and are requesting from other Netizens contributions, ideas,
and suggestions of what rights should be included. Following are some beginning ideas. The
Declaration of the Rights of Netizens:
------------------------------------------
In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human communications that was built by a
cooperative non-commercial process, the following Declaration of the Rights of the Netizen is
presented for Netizen comment. As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for the
Net, the following are proposed to be their rights: o Universal access at no or low cost o Freedom
of Electronic Expression to promote the exchange of knowledge without fear of reprisal o
Uncensored Expression o Access to Broad Distribution o Universal and Equal access to knowledge
and information o Consideration of one's ideas on their merits o No limitation to access to read, to
post and to otherwise contribute o Equal quality of connection o Equal time of connection o No
Official Spokesperson o Uphold the public grassroots purpose and participation o Volunteer
Contribution - no personal profit from the contribution freely given by others o Protection of the
public purpose from those who would use it for their private and money making purposes The Net
is not a Service, it is a Right. It is only valuable when it is collective and universal. Volunteer effort
protects the intellectual and technological common-wealth that is being created. DO NOT
UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and NETIZENS. Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969),
Thomas Paine, Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen (1789), NSF Acceptable Use Policy, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the current cry for
democracy worldwide.
============================================================
===
pre-1979
pre-1989
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1945: Vannevar Bush
1960: J.C.R Licklider
1962: Douglas Englebart
1965: Ted Nelson
1968: Douglas Englebart
1969: ARPANET
1971: Ray Tomlinson
1974: Vint Cerf / Bob Kahn
1978: TCP/IP
Further information on J.C.R. Licklider is available on-line from two excellent sources. The first is
Netizens Netbook, by Rhonda HaubenMichael Hauben. You should look especially at chapters 5, 6,
and 7 for information on Licklider. The second source is Tools For Thought, by Howard Rheingold.
There you should look at chapter 7. and
One of the most exciting sources you can check comes from J.C.R. Licklider himself. In two
extraordinary papers, Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) and The Computer as a Communications
Device (1968, co-authored with Robert Taylor), Licklider describes his vision of computing (1960),
which led to the funding priorities of IPTO and helps explain why the Internet was built, and
discusses the future (1968), presciently arguing that by the Year 2000 millions of people would be
on-line, connected by a global network. It seems he was right. Both papers can be downloaded in
PDF format. These papers are available for non-commercial use only, courtesy of Robert Taylor
and the Digital Equipment Corporation.
In order to read PDF files, you must have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. You may get a copy here.
This article is a draft chapter from Michael Hauben <[email protected]> and Ronda Hauben's
<[email protected]> Netbook titled "The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net."
Commercial use of this writing is prohibited and this draft is being made available for comment.
Please send comments to both of us at [email protected] and [email protected].
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