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How Did The Internet Develop?
How Did The Internet Develop?
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How did the internet develop?
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The Agency’s main objectives
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ARPANet
Early version of the internet was known as
ARPANet
Backbone
– Is a term used to describe a structure that
handles the major traffic in a networked system–
much like a major highway
Network Backbone
is a “cyberspace highway” made up of high-speed
cables and switching stations
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internetworking
The process of linking a collection of
networks is called internetworking
This term is where the internet got its
name
The term internet was officially adopted
in 1983.
More commonly referred to as the Net
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ARPANet
Users originally used the internet to
share
– Scientific and engineering information
Other uses discovered
– Email most popular
Expansion into Europe in 1970s
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ARPANet splits into two parts
MILNet
– Various defence agencies and the military
ARPANet
– Research and development network
– International communication tool for the
academic community
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Mid 1980s
Speed of ARPANet backbone no
longer sufficient
National Science Foundation (NSF)
created a new high-speed network
NSFNet
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NSFNet
Two main objectives
To interconnect supercomputing centres
so they could access one another’s
recources
To give academic and research centres
access to one another for purposes of
exchanging information
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ARPANet and NSFNet
Linked together but NSFNet had a
faster backbone
By early 1990s NSFNet fully replaced
ARPANet
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Growth of Internet
Fueled by purchase of personal
computers
Growing demand for “anytime,
anywhere”
NSFNet academics only
Bell, AT&T and Nortel built high-
speed backbones and new networks
that used the same protocols
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TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TCIP/IP
Available for free
Rapid growth of the internet
Set up internet accounts with
telecommunications companies and
Internet service providers (ISPs)
Internet - most popular use
– Email and file sharing
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A presentation by
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