History of the Internet Then till Now

60’s 1962 – Proposal for a global network of computers 1961 – Packet switching 1965 – MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer 1969 – 4 nodes: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, & University of Utah

70’s 1970 – 8 nodes: including MIT, Harvard, BBN, SDC 1971 – 17 nodes: including Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U 1972 – E-Mail uses “@” 1973 – FTP protocol published 1974 – Ethernet 1979 – Usenet & Newsgroups

80’s 1981 – Listserv e-mail discussion groups 1989 – Archie FTP site archiver 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee proposes hyperlinks

90’s 1990 – Hytelnet library catalog resources 1991 – Gopher search engine 1991 – WWW using hyperlinks 1993 – Mosaic browser 1994 – World Wide Web Consortium 1998 – Microsoft integrates IE into Windows

2000’s 2000 – A website welcomes the year 19100 2001 – Napster suspends service 2002 – Blogs become hip 2003 – SQL slammer worm takes 10 whole minutes to spread world-wide 2004 – More servers outside US than inside 2006 – Zimbabwe loses service for non-payment

2000’s 2008 – Google’s crawler reaches 1 trillion pages (26 M in 1998 & 1 B in 2000)