1. History of the Internet
Then till Now

2. 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

3. 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 – uses
1973 – FTP protocol published
1974 – Ethernet
1979 – Usenet & Newsgroups

4. 80’s 1981 – Listserv e-mail discussion groups
1989 – Archie FTP site archiver
1989 – Tim Berners-Lee proposes hyperlinks

5. 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

6. 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

7. 2000’s
2008 – Google’s crawler reaches 1 trillion pages (26 M in 1998 & 1 B in 2000)