!!! SO LITTLE BY LITTLE MANY PEOPLE STARTED TO CONNECT TO THE NET SO ARPANET DEAD IT BECAME THE INTERNET THE NET OF THE NETS !!!

The Internet

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The Internet was developed during the last years of '60s: its name was ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Architecture NETwork). USA's Defense Department built ARPANET because in case of war, information had to travel through a country, even in case of bombing. So they built a 'net' of computers who were connected each other. If one specific computer was damaged by bombing, information could travel the same from ANOTHER computer to ANOTHER computer. So, USA's Defense Department built a protocol named TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol: by means of this protocol, all kind of nets could 'talk' each other). Then, thanks to NSF (National Science Foundation) there were other 'nets' of computers who were connected to that ARPANET. Then Universities decided to connect to the net too, because they found that researchers could exchange informations each other very well in that way. So, little by little, many people started to connect to the net. So ARPANET dead: it became the INTERNET...the net of the nets!

Short Internet Story

1957 - USA's Department of Defense create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
1969 - ARPAnet was born. This is the first Internet. 4 nodes: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB and University of UTAH. 4 mini computers Honeywell 516, 12 Kbytes of memory!! First RFC (Request For Comment): "Host Software"
1970 - ARPAnet hosts start using NCP - Network Control Protocol
1971 - 15 nodes and 23 hosts: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, University of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames. Ray Tomlinson invents the first email program to send messages across a network
1974 - Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" that's the Transmission Control Program (TCP)
1976 - UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs. Mailing lists were born
1979 - Truscott Ellis and Bellovin invented USENET News (Newsgroups)
1981 - BITNET (Because It's Time NETwork) was born
1982 - The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), was established as the protocol suite for ARPANET. The TCP/IP was born! EUNET (European Unix NETwork) was born.
1983 - EARN was born. NSF was born. FidoNet was born
1984 - JUNET (Japan Unix Network) was born. JANET (Joint Academic Network) was born
1986 - NSFNET was born: backbone speed of 56Kbps! NNTP was invented.
1987 - UUNet was born
1988 - The 'worm'. The first virus on the net! NSFNet's backbone: 1.544 Mbps (T1)
1989 - RIPE, Reseaux IP Europeens was born
1990 - ARPAnet dead. Archie was born. Hytelnet was born. NSFNet's backbone: 45 Mbps (T3)
1991 - WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) was born, by Thinking Machines Corporation. Gopher was born (University of Minnesota). WWW (World Wide Web), developed by Tim Berners-Lee (CERN), was born!
1992 - Veronica a gopherspace search tool was born
1993 - InterNIC (created by NSF) was born. It has to manage domains of all over the world. Mosaic (the first graphical browser, by NCSA - National Center Supercomputing Applications) was born!!
1994 - Netscape Navigator was born
1995 - Microsoft Internet Explorer was born

And now Internet2 is coming...

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