6. 1958 – ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency)
7. 1962 - J.C.R. “Lick” Licklider of MIT
“Intergalactic Computer Network”
8. “A Network of such [computers], connected
to one another by wide-band communication
lines” which provided the “functions of
present-day libraries together with anticipated
advances in information storage and retrieval
and [other] symbolic functions”.
‘Man Computer Symbiosis’
JCR Licklider, 1960
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24. “This ARPA program has created no less than a
revolution in computer technology and it has been
one of the most successful projects ever
undertaken by ARPA. The full impact of the
technical changes set in motion by this project may
not be understood for many years”.
ARPANET Completion Report
January 3rd, 1978
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36. <19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence
for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more
economical to mark things that are NOT jokes -
given current trends. For this, use
:-(
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1945 and science fiction author - Sir Arthur C Clarke (PIC) and his technical paper “Can Rocket Stations give world wide Radio Coverage?” which appeared in Wireless World.
1957 Russians launch Sputnik (PIC) and in response the USA forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) designed to come up with the technology to thwart those pesky Russians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDRDl7w3nto
1962 - The first recorded description of the social interactions through computer networking is a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider (PIC) of MIT discussing a &quot;Galactic Network&quot; concept - globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.
This guy essentially invented junk-email judging by the amount of memos he liked to write.
1962 - The first recorded description of the social interactions through computer networking is a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider (PIC) of MIT discussing a &quot;Galactic Network&quot; concept - globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.
This guy essentially invented junk-email judging by the amount of memos he liked to write.
1963 -- It&apos;s the Cold War and so the RAND Corporation (research and development) specialising in national security contracts begins research into how the government can communicate after a nuclear war.
Result is concept for a fault tolerant &quot;packet-switching network,&quot; that divides data up into small packets, each labeled with the destination for the packet.
This network (conceived by RAND researcher Paul Baran (PIC) , would have no central control system, and would be designed from the start to continue to operate when parts of the network fail. Back then this kind of thinking is still in the realms of science fiction.
Syncom the first synchronous communication satellite, is launched. Clarke&apos;s vision is a reality.
Connects 2 Computers in California & Massachusetts
1963 -- It&apos;s the Cold War and so the RAND Corporation (research and development) specialising in national security contracts begins research into how the government can communicate after a nuclear war.
Result is concept for a fault tolerant &quot;packet-switching network,&quot; that divides data up into small packets, each labeled with the destination for the packet.
This network (conceived by RAND researcher Paul Baran (PIC) , would have no central control system, and would be designed from the start to continue to operate when parts of the network fail. Back then this kind of thinking is still in the realms of science fiction.
Syncom the first synchronous communication satellite, is launched. Clarke&apos;s vision is a reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs6A54QTNRo
ARPANET&apos;s dream involves huge supercomputers like LILLAC IV (PIC) begin connected up so scientists across the country could use it&apos;s super-computing strength. This is the porsche of computers.
It is decided that ARPANET will be managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ or IMPs in front of the major supercomputers. They evolve into today’s routers.
The man who essentially made it possible was Kleinrock and his &quot;packet switching principle&quot; and as a reward the first central node of what would become the Internet is situated in his department in UCLA. Awwww. Isn&apos;t it sweet?
October 1969 - The Internet in its most basic form, still called ARPANET is switched on. Four sites were chosen for this grand experiment UCLA, Standford Research Institute, USCB and University of UTAH.
The first to use the Internet was Charley Kline at UCLA who sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. the first message ever sent was LO! (PIC)
LO = Biblical?LO = Abbrev. of Hello?
No, the system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!One the second attempt it works.
The ARPANET begins the year with 14 nodes in operation.
BBN modifies and streamlines the IMP design so it can be moved to a less cumbersome platform than the DDP-516.
BBN also develops a new platform, called a Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) which is capable of supporting input from multiple hosts or terminals
Intel’s release of the 4004, the first ‘computer on a chip,’ ushers in the epoch of the microprocessor. The combination of memory and processor on a single chip reduces size and cost, and increases speed. It&apos;s a huge leap forward.
Ray Tomlinson invents email
Video of Vint Cerf talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxySmrn-IwQ
1973 - APRANET continues to grow - 30 institutions now online (PIC) Places like NASA join up.
APRA is now DARPA (D for defense) and looks to extend its reach beyond the USA.
A Packet Radio Site connecting seven computers on four islands; and a satellite connection enables linking to two foreign sites in Norway and the UK!
Vin Cerf hired by Roberts at DARPA to connect APRANET and these satellite sites together. They are not very compatible at first until Cerf develops a Transmission Control Protocol or TCP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frWeGyes6Ew
The ARPANET geographical map now shows 61 nodes
1978 - ARPRA&apos;s job is now complete. What it started becomes commonly known as The Internet from this point on.
What was needed was a single modem that could &quot;do it all&quot;; connect directly to the phone, answer incoming calls, dial numbers to initiate outgoing calls and hang up when the call was complete.
Dennis C Hayes and Dale Hetherington – created a ‘hobby level’ modom capable of this Hayes’s kitchen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Microcomputer_Products
First spam email sent by Gary Thuerk
Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., sent his first mass e-mailing to 400 customers over the Arpanet, hoping to get attention, particularly from West Coast customers, for Digital&apos;s new T-series of VAX systems.
Instead, he ended up getting crowned, for better or worse, as the father of spam.
&quot;Actually,&quot; Thuerk interjects, &quot;I think of myself as the father of e-marketing. There&apos;s a difference.&quot;
First spam email sent by Gary Thuerk
Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., sent his first mass e-mailing to 400 customers over the Arpanet, hoping to get attention, particularly from West Coast customers, for Digital&apos;s new T-series of VAX systems.
Instead, he ended up getting crowned, for better or worse, as the father of spam.
&quot;Actually,&quot; Thuerk interjects, &quot;I think of myself as the father of e-marketing. There&apos;s a difference.&quot;
1979 - USENET begins - and with it the start of NEWSGROUPS (Computer Mag Cover)
Newsgroups, which are discussion groups focusing on a topic, followed, providing a means of exchanging information throughout the world. rec.arts.drwho, alt.sex.dogs to alt.culture to alt.music enimen
While Usenet is not considered as part of the Internet, since it does not share the use of TCP/IP, it linked Unix systems around the world, and many Internet sites took advantage of the availability of newsgroups. It was a significant part of the community building that took place on the networks.
Kevin Mackenzie’s emoticon
http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html
Scott Fahlman’s emoticon
http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html
1985 - The number of hosts on the net now totals 2000
Between the beginning of 1986 and the end of 1987 the number of networks grows from 2,000 to nearly 30,000
1986 - TCP/IP is available on workstations and PCs such as the newly introduced Compaq portable computer. Ethernet is becoming accepted for wiring inside buildings and across University campuses.
In Switzerland HTTP (hyper-text-transfer-protocol). This was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He was a physicist working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory Tim Berners-Lee addresses the issue of the constant change in the currency of information and the turn-over of people on projects. Instead of an hierarchical or keyword organization, Berners-Lee proposes ‘Hypertext’, that will run across distributed systems on different operating systems. Thus is born what eventually becomes the World Wide Web!