Download Internet History -- One Page Summary

M1 Langue des Métiers
Definite article ‘the’
... Internet is named after ... Internet Protocol, ... standard communications protocol
used by every computer on ... Internet. The Internet can powerfully leverage your ability
to find, manage, and share ... information. Never before in ... human history has such a
valuable resource been available to so many people at such little cost. You are incredibly
lucky.
The main Internet applications are described in ... chapters accessible through ... home
page, while this chapter describes ... underlying Internet network itself. ... following
sections provide more information:
Internet History -- One Page Summary
... conceptual foundation for ... creation of the Internet was largely created by
three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we
thought about ... technology by accurately predicting its future:
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Vannevar Bush wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for
... information technology with his description of ... "memex" automated
library system.
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Norbert Wiener invented ... field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers
to focus on ... use of technology to extend ... human capabilities.
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The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference crystallized ... concept
that ... technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the
first serious consideration of the consequences.
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Marshall McLuhan
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made ... idea of a global village interconnected by an
electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.
In 1957, ... Soviet Union launched the first satellite, ... Sputnik I, triggering ...
US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA agency to regain ...
technological lead in ... arms race.
The first networking protocol used on the ARPANET was the Network Control
Program. In 1983, it was replaced with ... TCP/IP protocol invented Robert Kahn,
Vinton Cerf, and ... others, which quickly became ... most widely used network
protocol in ... world.
In 1990, the ARPANET was retired and transferred to the NSFNET. The NSFNET was
soon connected to the CSNET, which linked ... Universities around North America,
and then to the EUnet, which connected ... research facilities in ... Europe. Thanks
in part to the NSF's enlightened management, and fueled by ... popularity of the
web, ... use of the Internet exploded after 1990, causing ... US Government to
transfer ... management to ... independent organizations starting in 1995.
And here we are.