Internet History

Scientific revolutions.
1. First
  1. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
    1. Heliocentric cosmology
2. Second
  1. Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
    1. Evolution Theory
3. Third
  1. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
    1. defence mechanism of repression
4. Fourth
  1. information revolution
Internet
1. Inception as an idea
  1. 1950s until the early 21st Century
  2. Scientists wished to maintain communication links between distant locations.
2. The early Internet
  1. research units, universities, and telecommunication companies
    1. grew in the 60s and 70s
      1. Network of computers that transmitted information by “packet switching.”
      2. August 1962
        The first Paper on the concept of the Internet.
        "On-Line Man Computer Communication"
      3. In 1972
        TELNET
        Minimal mechanism that permitted basic communication between two host machines
      4. 1973
        FTP
        Share files between machines
3. Multi-platform network
  1. 1990s
    1. United States and then expanded globally
    2. 1993
      1. There were 623 Websites in the world
4. 1980s
  1. The Internet entered its commercial phase
  2. 1984
    1. The number of computers increased to 1024
5. 2001
  1. There were 513 million Netusers
program that allowed communication
1. TALK was the first program that allowed Netusers to engage in a real-time conversation over the network
Protocols
1. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn
  1. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
    1. Rules that computers on a network use to establish and break connections
  2. Internet Protocol (IP).
    1. rules for routing of individual data packets

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