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    ACSC115 – Readings in Computing

    Question Sheet: 1 Semester: Fall 2024


    Student name: Nicolas Charalampous Reg. Num.: 027579

    Topic: History of the Internet

    Date Event/Information/Technology

    1962 “Galactic Network” concept of J.C.R of Licklider of MIT.

    1964 Paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964.

    1965 1st small wide area computer network experiment on TX-2 computers in mass. (Done by
    Leonardo Kleinrock, Lawrence G. Roberts and Thomas Merrill).

    1967 NPL paper on packet network concept.

    1967 ARPANET paper published by MIT.

    1968 Interface Message Processors (IMP’s) was developed as a key component on ARPANET.

    1969 The 1st host was connected on ARPANET, a month later the 1st host to host message was sent.

    1972 The ARPANET users could finally begin development of applications and ARPANET was 1 st
    shown to the public.
    Also the idea of open-architecture networking was introduced.
    1973 The start of the development of TCP/IP (Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol).

    1973 Ethernet technology, developed by Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC became the foundations of
    network technology.

    1980 TCP/IP is adopted as a defence standard.

    1981 BINET was devised by Ira Fuchs and Greydon Freeman, which linked academic mainframe
    computers in an email.
    UNIX computer operating system spawned USENET
    1983 ARPANET transitioned from NCP to TCP/IP, also called the year that the internet was birthed.

    1985 TCP/IP became mandatory for NSFNET program.

    1988 NSF initiated conferences on The Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet.

    1990 ARPANET is decommissioned.


    Web 1.0 era begins.
    1991 World Wide Web (www) was created.

    1993 Html was created.

    1994 A report called “Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond” was published as
    a blueprint for the evolution of the internet.

    1995 NSFNET was defunded and its funds were redistributed to regional networks.
    TCP/IP had supplanted or marginalized most other wide-area computer network protocols
    worldwide, and IP was well on its way to becoming THE bearer service for the Global
    Information Infrastructure.
    FNC unanimously passed a resolution defining the term Internet.
    1995-2003 Rise of the global internet. The was starting to be widely used for mailing lists, emails,
    creating and distributing maps, online shopping, online forums, bulletin boards, personal
    websites and blogs. At the beginning static pages were used instead of html, filesystems
    instead of relational database. In 1997-2001 the 1st investments related to the internet took
    place which led to the DOT-COM bubble. In 1999 online piracy became a thing. End of the web
    1.0 era

    2004-present Web 2.0 era begins.


    A lot of the computer components were upgraded massively in this era helping achieve higher
    speeds and safer trafficking for the internet.
    Creation of new communication means through Facebook, twitter etc.
    The mobile device revolution begun giving access to a big portion of humanity to the internet.
    2010 1st network extension to outer space.
    2011 The last IPv4 address was assigned leading to IPv6.
    2015 net neutrality.
    Today the internet reaches 5.4 billion people and its expanding rapidly.

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