Internet history
1960's
1961: Kleinrock - queueing theory shows effectiveness of packet-switching for bursty traffic source
1964: Baran - packet-switching for secure voice over military nets
1967: ARPAnet conceived by Advanced Research Projects Agency
1969: first ARPAnet node operational
1970's
1970: ALOHAnet satellite network in Hawaii
1972:
ARPAnet public demonstration, has 15 nodes
NCP (Network Control Protocol) first host-host protocol, RFC001
first e-mail program written by Tomlinson
1973: Metcalfe’s thesis laid out Ethernet
1974: early version TCP, Cerf and Kahn, eventually developed into IP, TCP and UDP
late 70s:
Other networks and protocols
XNS-Xerox, SNA-IBM, DECnet-Digital
ARPAnet has round 200 nodes
1980's
1982: SMTP e-mail protocol defined
1983:
RFC801, transfer from NCP to TCP/IP
RFC1034, DNS defined for name-to-IP-address translation
1985: FTP protocol defined
1988: congestion control introduced - Van Jacobson
new national networks: CSNET, BITnet, NSFNET
End of 80s around 100,000 hosts
1990's onwards:
ARPAnet ceased to exist, as did NSFNET
Commercial ISPs took over
The WWW invented - Tim Berners Lee
1992-200 web servers
1993 Netscape formed,
1996 Microsoft in on the act
Developments in high speed, high scale-ability
Late 1990s - 2000s:
instant messaging, P2P file sharing, Broadband, wireless
network security to forefront
est. 50 million host, 100 million+ users
backbone links running at Gbps