History of the internet

History of the internet

1. The History of the internet

2. agenda What is Internet? What is network? Pioneers of Internet Internet history Internet growth Conclusion

3. What is internet? Plain and simple: A world wide system of interconnected networks and computers

4. What is network? A computer network is an interconnection of a group of computers.

5. Pioneers of internet Robert E Kahn is an American computer scientist, who along with Vinton Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet protocol which are the heart of the Internet.

6. Internet history

7. SputniK On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite called Sputnik .

8. arpanet ARPANET was developed under the direction of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ) in 1969 . The project intended to serve the military and researchers with multiple paths of computers linking together for sharing data’s.   

9. It was the world's first operational  packet switching network and predecessor of the  Internet.

10. It connected computers at four universities across the country. University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara and University of Utah . First message sent across the network was supposed to have been “ Login ”, but crashed when the letter “ G ” was typed in. The second attempt was successful.

11. E-mail Electronic mail is introduced in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson , a Cambridge, computer scientist .

12. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. With 1973- 75% of the traffic was E-mail. Despite what the world wide web offers, email remains the most important application of the Internet and the most widely used facility it has.

13. Domain name In 1984 Domain Name System(DNS) was established  with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and . edu Writer William Gibson coins the term “ cyberspace .”

14. 1990 AND ON Fueled by the popularity of the web, the use of the Internet exploded after 1990 . This forced the US Government to turnover management of the net to independent organizations beginning in 1995 . That brings us to the modern day use of the World Wide Web (www).

15. The world wide web In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) developed a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web.

16. mosaic Mosaic was developed by Marc Andreeson in 1993 . It was the first Internet Web Browser. It becomes the dominant navigating system for the World Wide Web, which at this time accounts for merely 1% of all Internet traffic.

17. conclusion The internet has deeply ingrained in our culture and our daily lives as a… Source of news, facts and figures Communication tool Banking Shopping An educational and entertainment medium .

18. references Communication technology update New media: trends and techniques Introduction to mass communication

19. Presented by, NEENA THOMAS ANTONY CJ RAJESH KUMAR AMAL JITH