Hobbes' Internet Timeline
RFC 2235
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(November 1997; No errata)
Also known as FYI 32
Was draft-rfced-info-hobbes (individual)
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Author | Robert Zakon | ||
Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
Stream | Legacy | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | Legacy state | (None) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 2235 (Informational) | |
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Network Working Group R. Zakon Request for Comments: 2235 MITRE FYI: 32 November 1997 Category: Informational Hobbes' Internet Timeline Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) Robert H. Zakon and The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved. 1. Introduction This document presents a history of the Internet in timeline fashion, highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet as we know it today. A growth summary of the Internet and some associated technologies is also included. 2. Hobbes' Internet Timeline Excerpted from the author's copyrighted work of the same name. The most current version of Hobbes' Internet Timeline is available at http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1950s 1957 USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military (:amk:) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1960s 1962 Paul Baran, RAND: "On Distributed Communications Networks" - Packet-switching (PS) networks; no single outage point Zakon Informational [Page 1] RFC 2235 Hobbes' Internet Timeline November 1997 1965 ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers" - TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and Q-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are directly linked (without packet switches) 1967 ACM Symposium on Operating Principles - Plan presented for a packet-switching network - First design paper on ARPANET published by Lawrence G. Roberts National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops NPL Data Network under D. W. Davies 1968 PS-network presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) 1969 ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking - First node at UCLA, Network Measurements Center [SDS SIGMA 7, SEX] and soon after at: - Stanford Research Institute (SRI), NIC [SDS940/Genie] - UCSB, Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics [IBM 360/75, OS/MVT] - Univ of Utah, Graphics [DEC PDP-10, Tenex] - use of Information Message Processors (IMP) [Honeywell 516 mini computer with 12K of memory developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) First Request for Comment (RFC): "Host Software" by Steve Crocker Univ of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State Univ establish X.25-based Merit network for students, faculty, alumni (:sw1:) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1970s Store-and-forward networks - Used electronic mail technology and extended it to conferencing Zakon Informational [Page 2] RFC 2235 Hobbes' Internet Timeline November 1997 1970 ALOHAnet developed by Norman Abrahamson, Univ of Hawaii (:sk2:) - connected to the ARPANET in 1972 ARPANET hosts start using Network Control Protocol (NCP). 1971 15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email program to send messages across a distributed network. The original program was derived from two others: an intra-machine email program (SNDMSG) and an experimental file transfer program (CPYNET) (:amk:irh:) 1972 International Conference on Computer Communications with demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines and the Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) organized by Bob Kahn. InterNetworking Working Group (INWG) created to address need for establishing agreed upon protocols. Chairman: Vinton Cerf. Telnet specification (RFC 318) 1973 First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) Bob Metcalfe's Harvard PhD Thesis outlines idea for Ethernet (:amk:) Bob Kahn poses Internet problem, starts internetting research program at ARPA. Vinton Cerf sketches gateway architecture in MarchShow full document text