cyber security
History of the Internet
History of the internet
Yes, it was created by the government
ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Mission – to communicate between nodes on a network to (a) send messages in case of war and (b) provide redundancy – move backups of data from one location to another in case of nuclear attack
1969 – the year first transmission was sent on the network.
No government runs the Internet – the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), made up of computer scientists & electrical engineers, approves standards
Definition of the Internet – a network of networks
The four original nodes: UC Berkley, U of Utah, Stanford, and UCLA
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are considered the “fathers” of the Internet
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Evolution of the internet & its protocols
Other dates
1972: ARPANET nodes increase to 23, Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail
1973: TCP/IP protocol was created, but would not become the standard for transmitting data for another decade
1976: Widespread distribution of UNIX
1979: USENET (User Network) developed, connecting students at Duke and UNC
1983 – TCP/IP adopted as universal Internet communication standard
1988 – first Internet Worm – the Morris Worm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Other dates
1991 – development of World Wide Web by Dr. Tim-Berners-Lee in Switzerland, @ CERN laboratory; Gopher at U of Minnesota
1993 – MOSAIC – first fully functional graphical web browser, by Marc Andreesen @ Univ of Illinois
1994 – creation of Yahoo by Filo and Yang at Stanford; Netscape Navigator
1995 – Netscape goes public; introduction of Java programming language, which runs on any computer and in any browser; Microsoft Internet Explorer; Windows 95
2000 – first recorded Denial of Service attack by Mafiaboy
2004 – Facebook
2006 - Twitter