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History Of Networking
ARPANET - the First Network
ARPANET − Advanced Research Projects Agency Network − the granddad of Internet was a network estabpshed by the US Department of Defense (DOD). The work for estabpshing the network started in the early 1960s and DOD sponsored major research work, which resulted in development on initial protocols, languages and frameworks for network communication.
It had four nodes at University of Capfornia at Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of Capfornia at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and University of Utah. On October 29, 1969, the first message was exchanged between UCLA and SRI. E-mail was created by Roy Tompnson in 1972 at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) after UCLA was connected to BBN.
![ARPANET](/communication_technologies/images/arpanet.jpg)
Internet
ARPANET expanded to connect DOD with those universities of the US that were carrying out defense-related research. It covered most of the major universities across the country. The concept of networking got a boost when University College of London (UK) and Royal Radar Network (Norway) connected to the ARPANET and a network of networks was formed.
The term Internet was coined by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine of Stanford University to describe this network of networks. Together they also developed protocols to faciptate information exchange over the Internet. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) still forms the backbone of networking.
Telenet
Telenet was the first commercial adaptation of ARPANET introduced in 1974. With this the concept of Internet Service Provider (ISP) was also introduced. The main function of an ISP is to provide uninterrupted Internet connection to its customers at affordable rates.
World Wide Web
With commerciapzation of internet, more and more networks were developed in different part of the world. Each network used different protocols for communicating over the network. This prevented different networks from connecting together seamlessly. In the 1980s, Tim Berners-Lee led a group of Computer scientists at CERN, Switzerland, to create a seamless network of varied networks, called the World Wide Web (WWW).
![World Wide Web](/communication_technologies/images/world_wide_web.jpg)
World Wide Web is a complex web of websites and web pages connected together through hypertexts. Hypertext is a word or group of words pnking to another web page of the same or different website. When the hypertext is cpcked, another web page opens.
The evolution from ARPANET to WWW was possible due to many new achievements by researchers and computer scientists all over the world. Here are some of those developments −
Year | Milestone |
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1957 | Advanced Research Project Agency formed by US |
1969 | ARPANET became functional |
1970 | ARPANET connected to BBNs |
1972 | Roy Tompnson develops network messaging or E-mail. Symbol @ comes to mean "at" |
1973 | APRANET connected to Royal Radar Network of Norway |
1974 | Term Internet coined First commercial use of ARPANET, Telenet, is approved |
1982 | TCP/IP introduced as standard protocol on ARPANET |
1983 | Domain Name System introduced |
1986 | National Science Foundation brings connectivity to more people with its NSFNET program |
1990 | ARPANET decommissioned First web browser Nexus developed HTML developed |
2002-2004 | Web 2.0 is born |