Transcript In the Beginning….

In the
Beginning….
The History of the Internet
Essential Questions
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What factors drove the
development of the
Internet?
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Who were the people
involved in the revolution
and what made them able to
change the way we worked,
lived and communicated?
Objectives
Analyze the impact of the WWW on
society through research, interviews, and
personal observation;
 Summarize the development of Internet
protocols, including, but not limited to,
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),
Gopher, File Transfer Protocol (FTP),
telnet, and Wide Area Information System
(WAIS);
 Identify individuals involved in the
development of the Internet.
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Creation of the Internet
The history of the Internet begins
at the height of the cold war in
the 1960's.
People at the Rand Corporation,
America's foremost military think
tank, were trying to figure out an
important strategic problem: how
could US authorities talk to each
other in the aftermath of a
nuclear attack?
Use Resources for more background information
http://www.pbs.org/
Connectivity
NSFNET Backbone
Original Funding
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ARPA – Department of
Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency
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ARPANET originally
connected four universities
and enabled scientists to
share information and
resources across long
distances
Who?
Some people you may have heard of:
Tim Berners-Lee inventor of WWW
Marc Andreesen MOSAIC & Netscape.
Vint Cerf developer of the
TCP/IP protocol.
Sandy Lerner –
co-founder of
Cisco Systems
Ray Tomlinson –
first to use the @ sign
Bill Gates Microsoft
Who?
Some people you haven’t heard of:
Paul Baran - Packet-switching
 Lawrence G. Roberts - First ARPANET plan
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Ray Tomlinson - Email program
Plus many many more!
Software
Software needed to communicate within
the network
Telnet
 File Transfer Protocol
(FTP)
 TCP/IP (Transmission
Control Protocol/
Internet Protocol)
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The First Four Sites
UCLA
 University of Utah
 University of California
Santa Barbara
 Stanford Research Institute
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Linked in 1969 via a 50kbps line provided by AT&T.
Growth of the Internet
Internet vs. WWW
FTP
Telnet
Gopher
WWW
Chat
Mailing Lists
News Groups
Bulletin Boards
Email
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The WWW is just one part of Internet.
Email
First Accepted Application
Quickly became the most popular
application.
 Allowed researchers a quicker way to
correspond than scholarly journals.
 However it was:
– Text based
– Command driven
– It was the best at the time
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Benefits of the Web
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Graphics
Sounds
Video
Graphical
interface
Easier to use
Featured Links
Explore links in At Your Fingertips
for more information about:
 People
 Hardware development
 Software
Internet2
Not a separate physical
network
 Higher bandwidth
 Consortium led by over
180 universities
 Advocates advanced
network applications
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See Resources for more information
about Internet2.