1.7 The history of Computer Networking and the Internet
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The switching 60’s
Telephone
Telephone network is the dominating communication
network
Used circuit switching
Computer communication
Short bursts of information
Long inactivity periods
Packet switching
More suitable for this type of communication
More robust
ARPAnet
Advanced Research Projects Agency at MIT
The first packet switching network
IMP (Interface message processor) installed at
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
Stanford
Univ. of Utah
The 70’s
1972:
ARPAnet is now consistent of 15 nodes
The first host-to-host protocol
NCP (Network Control Protocol) enables applications
to be written
First e-mail program
New networks emerging…
ALOHAnet
Telenet
French packet switching network
IBM’s SNA
Commercial packet switching network based on ARPAnet’s technology
Cyclades
Enabling communication over microwaves between the Hawaiian Islands.
Parallelled ARPAnet’s work
Tymnet, GE Information Services network etc.
Time sharing networks
Networks of networks
DARPA (Defence ARPA) funded the connection of
networks
Networks of networks also called inernetting
Protocols
TCP
TCP
IP
(early version of) TCP
was used for connecting
the networks
Forwarding functions
IP
UDP
More Protocols
ALOHA Protocol
Multiple access protocol
Ethernet protocol
Enabling wired based
broadcast sharing networks
Laying the foundation for
LAN
The 80’s
More computer networks
BITNET
University e-mail and file sharing
CSNET
Linking researchers without access to the ARPAnet
NSFNET
Connection to supercomputing centers
56kbps backbone, later 1,5Mbps and serving as the
linking backbone between regional networks
Standardisation
TCP/IP replacing NCP as the standard host protocol
for ARPAnet
The late 80’s:
Congestion control is added to TCP
DNS is invented
The 90’s
Commercialisation
ARPAnet closes down
NSFNET serving as backbone connecting the regional
networks and opening the network for commercial
purposes
In 1995 NSFNET is decomissioned and Internet
Service Providers serves as the new backbones in its
place
Developments
The key components of the web: HTML, HTTP, web server and a
web browser is developed in the early 90’s
93: web browsers with GUI.
95: Web commerce
Killer applications:
E-mail
The Web
IM (ICQ)
P2P file sharing (Napster)
The rest is history…