GROWTH OF THE

INTERNET By: Lucius Peeples IV

03/25/15

Acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

Was the first wide area network used to link research centers as well as

universities.

Also was the first to use packet switching and is considered the

beginning of the internet.

Started out connecting UCLA and Stanford Research Institute then

eventually the University of Utah and University of California-Santa

Barbra.

ARPANET

ARPANET was created by ARPA later renamed DARPA(Defense

Advanced Research Projects Agency)

This agency was a created to build and create future technologies and

in doing so created the very first network.

J.C.R Licklider was the originator of ARPANET.

ARPANET was also the first network to use TCP/IP and this helped

to make ARPANET the biggest network created during this time.

ARPANET

The reason ARPANET was so important was that it was

essentially the birth of the internet.

Not only that but it paved the way for communications across

computers over long distances.

ARPANET is the backbone for the technology we use today and

will probably use forever in terms of the use of the internet and

networking systems.

ARPANET

NSFNET

Acronym for the National Science Foundation Network.

A network that was created by the National Science Foundation used

to provide computing resources for researchers.

In 1984, the NSF created numerous supercomputer centers to help

create the network.

NSF wanted to create a network of networks and used its NSFNET to

connect with the ARPANET to offer access to remote computing.

NSFNET

Dennis Jennings was the lead on the NSFNET project hired by the

NSF.

He made 3 important decisions to help the NSFNET grow.

• Make it a general purpose research network.

• Not limiting the network to the connection of supercomputers.

• Make a backbone for the connection of regional networks.

NSFNET

The reason the NSFNET was so important was because in 1990 after

the ARPANET was officially discontinued by the military, the research

network was passed to the NSFNET.

This passing from ARPANET to NSFNET helped to spread the use

of the network and increasing the usage of the Internet.

Since ARPANET is considered the birth and backbone of the

internet and since its discontinuing there had to be something to take its

place and make advances on such which is NSFNET.

WWW

Known as the World Wide Web.

Invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, to him it was a set of

technologies that would make the Internet useful to people.

As the World Wide Web has changed the way communication on

the Internet is used, three major technologies created made the

foundation the WWW.

WWW

HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)

URI(Uniform Resource Identifier)

HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

The value of WWW is as it relates to the Internet was to use the

Internet as a gateway for human communication, commerce and

opportunity than just research on its own.

WWW

REFERENCES

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html

http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_nsfnet.htm

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/arpanet.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdFNTeGqIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6U0eYlLhs

http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Spring06/161A/projects/camile/arpanet/arpanettitle.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Nsfnet_logo.jpg/110px-

Nsfnet_logo.jpg

http://www.psfo.org/attachments/Image/wwwlogo.jpg