1. If the auto industry had keep with technology
like the computer industry...
...we would all be driving $25 cars that
get 1000 miles per gallon.

2. This is true, but…
- Your car would crash twice a day
- Every time a road is repair, you would have
to buy a new car
- The airbag systems would say, “Are you
sure?” before going off
- When your car died on the freeway for no
reason, you would just accept this, restart,
and drive on

3. History of the Internet
1956
- USSR launches Sputnik (Earth satellite)
- US forms Advance Research Project Agency
1969
- ARPANET commissioned by DOD for research in networking
1971
- 15 nodes (23 hosts) UCLA, SRI, UCSB, U of Utah, BBN, MIT, SDC RAND, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU, CWRU, CMU, NASA
1973
- First international connections for ARPANET: England & Norway.
- Bob Metcalfe's Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard: Ethernet
1977
- Electronic Mail to over 100 researchers
1981
- BITNET: electronic mail & listserv servers
1982
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) established.

4. History of the Internet (continuation)
1983
- ARPANET split into ARPANET and MILNET.
- Berkeley Unix + TCP/IP for desktop stations. Hosts: 1,000
1986
- NSFNET created (backbone 56 Kbps)
1987
- NSF agreed to manage the backbone with Merit, IBM and MCI
- No. of hosts breaks 10,000
1989
- NSFNET upgraded to Mbps
- Creation of pan-European IP network. Hosts: 100,000
- Tim Berners-Lee paper “Hyper Text and CERN”
1990
- ARPANET ceases to exist
- Initial World-Wide-Web program on NeXT
1991
- Gopher released by University of Minnesota
- WAIS released by Thinking Machines Corporation

5. History of the Internet (continuation)
1992
- NSFNET upgraded to Mbps
- NSF relaxes the “Acceptable Use Policy”. Hosts: 1 million
1993
- White House, United Nations and World Bank come On-Line
- Business and media take notice of the Internet
- MOSAIC is released in Illinois (Mark Andreessen at NCSA)
- Annual growth of traffic was 341,634%
1994
- US Senate and House provide information servers
- Shopping malls arrived on the Internet
- Mass marketing find its way to the Internet
- Andreessen & colleagues form Mosaic Communications Corp. (now Netscape)
1995
- The Web main theme at the European Parliament
- Sun Microsystems launched JAVA

9. Bandwidth Type of Circuit Speed/KBPS Time/Meg. Telephone 14.4 9.3 min
ISDN min
DirectPC min
T , sec
Cable TV Modem , sec
ASDL 6, sec
Adv. Cable TV Mod. 40, sec
T , sec
Optical fiber 80, sec

10. Growth of Internet Users
U.S. Online Population Forecast by Researcher
200
150
100 50
CommerceNet/Nielsen
Cyber Dialogue (Aggressive)
Cyber Dialogue (Conservative)
International Data Corp.
Jupiter/NFO
Population
(Millions)

13. Other Interesting References
Strategy:
“In Search of Strategy,” Sloan Management Review, Spring 1999
Internet Technology:
Keen, P., Mougayar, W., and Torregrossa, T. (1998) The Business
Internet and Intranet: A manager’s guide to key terms and Concepts,
Harvard Business School Press.
Internet Online Atlas:
History of the Internet: