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Today internet is 38 years old
On this day ie. October 29 at 10:30 PM in the year 1969, the first connection between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute was established. This was the initial step of the Department of Defense?s ARPANET which later developed into the Internet.
The first message ever to be sent over the internet was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.
The message itself was simply the word "login". The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the Internet was "Lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later.
Two years later e-mail and file transfers were developed.
* E-mail: In 1971, Ray Tomlinson of BBN sent the first network email. By 1972, ARPANET brought about the ?@? sign. By 1973, 75% of the ARPANET traffic was email.
* File transfer: By 1973, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) specification had been defined and implemented, enabling file transfers over the ARPANET.
* Voice traffic: A Network Voice Protocol (NVP) specifications was also defined (RFC 741) and then implemented, but conference calls over the ARPANET never worked well, for technical reasons; packet voice would not become a workable reality for a few decades.
In 1990 ARPANET was decommissioned and the role of backbone of the Internet was moved to the National Science Foundation established by NASA.
History
The ARPANET, developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.
The earliest ideas of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers were formulated by J.C.R. Licklider of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in August 1962, in a series of memos discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today.
By the summer of 1968(not Bryan Adams summer of 69
), a complete plan had been prepared, and after approval at ARPA, a Request For Quotation (RFQ) was sent to 140 potential bidders. Most regarded the proposal as outlandish, and only 12 companies submitted bids, of which only four were regarded as in the top rank. By the end of the year, the field had been narrowed to two, and after negotiations, a final choice was made, and the contract was awarded to BBN on 7 April 1969.
The rest is history in itself.........
The first message ever to be sent over the internet was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.
The message itself was simply the word "login". The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the Internet was "Lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later.
Two years later e-mail and file transfers were developed.
* E-mail: In 1971, Ray Tomlinson of BBN sent the first network email. By 1972, ARPANET brought about the ?@? sign. By 1973, 75% of the ARPANET traffic was email.
* File transfer: By 1973, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) specification had been defined and implemented, enabling file transfers over the ARPANET.
* Voice traffic: A Network Voice Protocol (NVP) specifications was also defined (RFC 741) and then implemented, but conference calls over the ARPANET never worked well, for technical reasons; packet voice would not become a workable reality for a few decades.
In 1990 ARPANET was decommissioned and the role of backbone of the Internet was moved to the National Science Foundation established by NASA.
History
The ARPANET, developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.
The earliest ideas of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers were formulated by J.C.R. Licklider of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in August 1962, in a series of memos discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today.
By the summer of 1968(not Bryan Adams summer of 69
), a complete plan had been prepared, and after approval at ARPA, a Request For Quotation (RFQ) was sent to 140 potential bidders. Most regarded the proposal as outlandish, and only 12 companies submitted bids, of which only four were regarded as in the top rank. By the end of the year, the field had been narrowed to two, and after negotiations, a final choice was made, and the contract was awarded to BBN on 7 April 1969.The rest is history in itself.........
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