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Internet

Internet History
History and
and
Growth
Growth
What Is the Internet?
• A network of networks, joining many government,
university and private computers together and
providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail,
bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext
documents, databases and other computational
resources

• The vast collection of computer networks which


form and act as a single huge network for
transport of data and messages across distances
which can be anywhere from the same office to
anywhere in the world.
What is the Internet?

• The largest network of networks in the


world.
How did the Internet come
to be?
• It started as a research project to
experiment with connecting
computers together with packet
switched networks.
• It was developed with funding and
leadership of the Defense
Department’s Advanced Research
Projects Agency (ARPA).
Brief History of the
Internet
• 1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create
ARPAnet
• 1970 - First five nodes:
– UCLA
– Stanford
– UC Santa Barbara
– U of Utah, and
– BBN
• 1974 - TCP specification
• 1984 – On January 1, the Internet with its 1000
hosts converts to using TCP/IP for messaging
A Brief Summary of the
Evolution of the Internet Mosaic
Age of
eCommerce
Begins
WWW Created 1995
Internet Created 1993
Named 1989
and
Goes
TCP/IP TCP/IP
Created 1984
ARPANET 1972
1969
Hypertext
Invented
Packet 1965
Switching
First Vast Invented
Computer 1964
Network
Silicon Envisioned
A Chip 1962
Mathematical 1958
Theory of
Communication
1948

1945 1995
Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
The Creation of the
Internet
• The creation of the Internet solved the following
challenges:
– Basically inventing digital networking as we know it
– Survivability of an infrastructure to send / receive high-speed
electronic messages
– Reliability of computer messaging

Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA


Internet Growth Trends
• 1977: 111 hosts on Internet
• 1981: 213 hosts
• 1983: 562 hosts
• 1984: 1,000 hosts
• 1986: 5,000 hosts
• 1987: 10,000 hosts
• 1989: 100,000 hosts
• 1992: 1,000,000 hosts
• 2001: 150 – 175 million hosts
• 2002: over 200 million hosts
• By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the Internet
By September 2002
The Internet Reached Two
Important Milestones:

Netsizer.com – from Telcordia

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