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Electronic Mail & Internet: by Sagar Rao

This document summarizes the history of the Internet from its origins in the 1960s as ARPANET, a US government network, to its growth into a global network of over 200 million users by 2002. It outlines key developments like the creation of TCP/IP in 1984 that allowed networks to interconnect and the launch of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. Charts show exponential growth in Internet hosts from 111 in 1977 to over 200 million by 2002. The conclusion pays tribute to the visionaries who created the Internet and brought us to the connected world we enjoy today.

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Electronic Mail & Internet: by Sagar Rao

This document summarizes the history of the Internet from its origins in the 1960s as ARPANET, a US government network, to its growth into a global network of over 200 million users by 2002. It outlines key developments like the creation of TCP/IP in 1984 that allowed networks to interconnect and the launch of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. Charts show exponential growth in Internet hosts from 111 in 1977 to over 200 million by 2002. The conclusion pays tribute to the visionaries who created the Internet and brought us to the connected world we enjoy today.

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Electronic Mail & Internet

By
Sagar rao
[email protected]

References
Fundamental of Internet & the WWW,
Raymond Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp2001,TMH
Internet & World Wide Programming,
Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, 2000, Pearson
Education

Internet History and Growth

Agenda
Internet History
Internet Evolution
Internet Growth Sept. 1969 Sept.
2002
Conclusion

What Is the Internet?


A
network
of
networks,
joining
many
government, university and private computers
together and providing an infrastructure for the
use of E-mail, bulletin boards, file archives,
hypertext documents, databases and other
computational resources
The vast collection of computer networks which
form and act as a single huge network for
transport of data and messages across
distances which can be anywhere from the
same office to anywhere in the world.
The largest network of networks in the world.
Uses TCP/IP protocols and packet switching .
Runs on any communications substrate.

Brief History of the


Internet
1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency) contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman)
to create ARPAnet
1970 - First five nodes:

UCLA
Stanford
UC Santa Barbara
U of Utah, and
BBN

1974 - TCP specification by Vint Cerf


1984 On January 1, the Internet with its 1000
hosts converts en masse to using TCP/IP for its
messaging

A Brief Summary of the


Evolution of the Internet

Age of
eCommerce
Mosaic Begins
Created 1995

WWW
InternetCreated 1993
Named 1989
and
Goes
TCP/IP TCP/IP
Created 1984
ARPANET 1972
1969
Hypertext
Invented
1965
Packet
Switching
First Vast Invented
Computer 1964
Network
SiliconEnvisioned
Chip
A
1962
Mathematical1958
Theory of
MemexCommunication
Conceived 1948
1945

1945

1995

From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow


1940s to 1969
We will prove that packet switching
works over a WAN.
Hypertext can be used to allow
rapid access to text data
Packet switching can be used to
send digitized data though
computer networks
We can accomplish a lot by having a
vast network of computers to use for
accessing information and exchanging ideas
We can do it cheaply by using
Digital circuits etched in silicon.
We do it reliably with bits,
sending and receiving data
We can access
information using
electronic computers

1945

1969

From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow


1970s to 1995

Great efficiencies can be accomplished if we use


The Internet and the World Wide Web to conduct business.
The World Wide Web is easier to use if we have a browser that
To browser web pages, running in a graphical user interface context.
Computers connected via the Internet can be used
more easily if hypertext links are enabled using HTML
and URLs: its called World Wide Web
The ARPANET needs to convert to
a standard protocol and be renamed to
The Internet
We need a protocol for Efficient
and Reliable transmission of
Packets over a WAN: TCP/IP
Ideas from
1940s to 1969

1970

1995

Internet Growth Trends

1977: 111 hosts on Internet


1981: 213 hosts
1983: 562 hosts
1984: 1,000 hosts
1986: 5,000 hosts
1987: 10,000 hosts
1989: 100,000 hosts
1992: 1,000,000 hosts
2001: 150 175 million hosts
2002: over 200 million hosts
By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the Internet

By September 2002
The Internet Reached Two
Important Milestones:

> 200,000,000 IP Hosts

> 840,000,000 Users

Netsizer.com from Telcordia

Conclusion
The Internet (and World Wide Web) was created by
some very bright, talented people who either had vision,
or were inspired by other talented peoples visions.
Though their ideas were not always popular, they
pressed ahead.
Their perseverance and hard work brought us to where
we are today.
There is a lot to be learned by studying these people,
their early work and keeping in mind what they had to
work with.
Today, we owe a great deal for the wired/wireless world
we enjoy, to the hard work of these people.

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