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Originally Posted by Rangsk
Actually, you are right. The Internet was originally a Department of Defense project. Here's a brief timeline that I constructed a few years ago for my Highschool senior project. This was actually on a slide, so it's brief. My paper goes much more indepth, and doesn't actually focus on the history of the Internet, but more of its transition and what I expect for the future.
1969 – US Department of Defense starts ARPANET (US Advanced Research Projects Agency)
1973 – ARPANET globalizes the internet
1982 – TCP/IP (Transaction Control Protocol / Internet Protocol).
1986 - Most Universities are connected to NSFNET (Nat. Science Foundation Network)
1989 – Ohio State University connects CompuServe and Universities
1992 – CERN creates World Wide Web and Graphical Web Browsers
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Aww, man, you missed the most important parts.
The name changes from DARPA to ARPA to DARPA!
More anicdotes: (re: very first ARPANET connection)
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At the UCLA end, they typed in the 'l' and asked SRI if they received it; 'got the l' came the voice reply. UCLA typed in the 'o', asked if they got it, and received 'got the o'. UCLA then typed in the 'g' and the darned system CRASHED! Quite a beginning. On the second attempt, it worked fine!
- Leonard Kleinrock, The Birth of the Internet.
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http://livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm
Until 1983, the 'internet' didn't use TCP/IP.
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SNDMSG & READMAIL. In the early 1970's, Ray Tomlinson was working on a small team developing the TENEX operating system, with local email programs called SNDMSG and READMAIL. In late 1971, Tomlinson developed the first ARPANET email application when he updated SNDMSG by adding a program called CPYNET capable of copying files over the network, and informed his colleagues by sending them an email using the new program with instructions on how to use it. To extend the addressing to the network, Tomlinson chose the "commercial at" symbol to combine the user and host names, providing the naturally meaningful notation "user@host" that is the standard for email addressing today. These early programs had simple functionality and were command line driven, but established the basic transactional model that still defines the technology -- email gets sent to someone else's mailbox.
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http://livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm
SMTP, the current email protocol, was developed in the early 80s.
Lots of good stuff at the livinginternet.com