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History of the Internet

Index History of the Internet

The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. [1]

93 relations: Adobe PageMill, Advanced Network and Services, Aliweb, An act to affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance, Birkenhead Public Library, BITNET, Charles Babbage Institute, Collaborative filtering, Commercial Internet eXchange, Commercialization of the Internet, Communication software, Communications, Computers, and Networks, Computer network, Crime Scene (website), Criticism of Yahoo!, CYCLADES, DARPA, David P. Reed, Dog poop girl, Download The True Story of the Internet, Ed Krol, ENQUIRE, Future Internet, General purpose technology, Global network, Herbert H. Chen, History of computing hardware, History of computing hardware (1960s–present), History of hypertext, History of Internet, History of libraries, History of technology, History of telecommunication, History of the Berkeley Software Distribution, History of the Internet in Sweden, History of the web browser, History of the World Wide Web, History of webcomics, History of Western civilization, History of Yahoo!, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, Index of history articles, Index of Internet-related articles, Information history, Intergalactic Computer Network, Internet access, Internet Explorer 4, Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 6, Internet governance, ..., Internet in the United States, Internetworking, IPv4, IT History Society, John Shoch, Jon Postel, Library history, List of historians by area of study, List of Internet pioneers, Mass media in Canada, Media history of China, Metcalfe's law, Michael S. Hart, Mosaic (web browser), NABU Network, National Federation of Advanced Information Services, National Information Infrastructure, Net.art, NPL network, Nupedia, On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Outline of computer engineering, Outline of information technology, Outline of technology, Outline of telecommunication, Outline of the Internet, PARC Universal Packet, Peter T. Kirstein, Superhighway Summit, The Singularity Is Near, Timeline of computing, Timeline of Internet conflicts, Timeline of Yahoo!, TOTSE, UKNOF, United States, Veni Markovski, Viant, Wirearchy, Yahoo! data breaches, You didn't build that, .mil, 2016 in the United States. Expand index (43 more) »

Adobe PageMill

PageMill is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, developed by Adobe Systems.

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Advanced Network and Services

Advanced Network and Services (ANS) was a United States non-profit organization formed in September 1990 by the NSFNET partners (Merit Network, IBM, and MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded NSFNET Backbone Service.

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Aliweb

ALIWEB (Archie Like Indexing for the WEB) is considered the first Web search engine, as its predecessors were either built with different purposes (the Wanderer, Gopher) or were literally just indexers (Archie, Veronica and Jughead).

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An act to affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance

The bill H.R. 1580(long title: "To affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance") was a bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives in the 113th United States Congress.

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Birkenhead Public Library

Birkenhead Public Library (Te Whare Matauranga o Birkenhead in Māori) is a New Zealand library, part of the Auckland Libraries system located on Auckland's North Shore.

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BITNET

BITNET was a co-operative U.S. university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman, Inc.

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Charles Babbage Institute

The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935.

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Collaborative filtering

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique used by recommender systems.

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Commercial Internet eXchange

The Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) was an early interexchange point that allowed the free exchange of TCP/IP traffic, including commercial traffic, between ISPs.

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Commercialization of the Internet

Prior to the disestablishment 1995 commercial traffic on the Internet in the United States was limited by law, and prior to 1988 for the most part strictly forbidden, with the exception of traffic with research and defense aims.

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Communication software

Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or users.

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Communications, Computers, and Networks

The Scientific American special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Network, is a special issue of Scientific American dedicated to articles concerning impending changes to the internet in the period prior to the expansion and mainstreaming of the world wide web via Mosaic and Netscape.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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Crime Scene (website)

Crime Scene is a website that presents fictional crime stories that are told through realistic case documents which can be investigated by the public.

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Criticism of Yahoo!

The multinational Internet corporation Yahoo! has received criticism for a variety of issues.

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CYCLADES

The CYCLADES computer network was a French research network created in the early 1970s.

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DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

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David P. Reed

David Patrick Reed (born January 31, 1952) is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking and wireless communications networks.

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Dog poop girl

Dog poop girl refers to a 2005 incident in South Korea which was one of the first internationally reported occurrences of doxing.

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Download The True Story of the Internet

Download: The True Story of the Internet is a documentary television series about Internet history.

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Ed Krol

Ed Krol (born August 21, 1951) is the former network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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ENQUIRE

ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web.

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Future Internet

Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet.

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General purpose technology

General-purpose technologies (GPTs) are technologies that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level),,.

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Global network

A global network is any communication network which spans the entire Earth.

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Herbert H. Chen

Herbert Hwa-sen Chen (March 16, 1942 – November 7, 1987) was a theoretical and experimental physicist at the University of California at Irvine known for his contributions in the field of neutrino detection.

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History of computing hardware

The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers.

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History of computing hardware (1960s–present)

The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as the transistor and later the integrated circuit.

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History of hypertext

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence.

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History of Internet

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History of libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.

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History of technology

The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques and is similar to other sides of the history of humanity.

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History of telecommunication

The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, the Americas and parts of Asia.

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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution

The History of the Berkeley Software Distribution begins in the 1970s.

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History of the Internet in Sweden

The history of Internet in Sweden can be considered to have begun in 1984, when the first Swedish network was connected to the Internet in Gothenburg.

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History of the web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

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History of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet.

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History of webcomics

The history of webcomics follows the advances of technology, art, and business of comics on the Internet.

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History of Western civilization

Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean.

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History of Yahoo!

Yahoo! was started at Stanford University.

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, by Ed Krol, was published in 1987 through funding by the National Science Foundation.

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Index of history articles

History is the study of the past.

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Index of Internet-related articles

This page provides an index of articles thought to be Internet or Web related topics.

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Information history

Information history may refer to the history of each of the categories listed below (or to combinations of them).

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Intergalactic Computer Network

Intergalactic Computer Network or Galactic Network was a computer networking concept similar to today's Internet.

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Internet access

Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices; and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web.

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Internet Explorer 4

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 (IE4) is a graphical web browser that Microsoft released in October 1997, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for the classic Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX - Robert McMillan writing for SunWorld (November 5, 1997) - Help and Support page on Microsoft's website (August 17, 2005) and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It".

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Internet Explorer 5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (IE5) is a graphical web browser and one of the main participants of the first browser war.

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Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the sixth major revision of Internet Explorer, a web browser developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems.

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Internet governance

Internet governance is the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.

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Internet in the United States

The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s.

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Internetworking

Internetworking is the practice of connecting a computer network with other networks through the use of gateways that provide a common method of routing information packets between the networks.

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IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP).

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IT History Society

The IT History Society (ITHS) is an organization that supports the history and scholarship of information technology by encouraging, fostering, and facilitating archival and historical research.

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John Shoch

John F. Shoch is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist who made significant contributions to the development of computer networking while at Xerox PARC, in particular to the development of the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP.

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Jon Postel

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

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Library history

Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures.

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List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study.

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List of Internet pioneers

Instead of a single "inventor", the Internet was developed by many people over many years.

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Mass media in Canada

The term mass media refers to any means or technology used to communicate a message to large groups of people.

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Media history of China

A timeline of China's media-related history since World War II, including computer hardware, software development, the history of the Internet, etc.

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Metcalfe's law

Metcalfe's law states the effect of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).

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Michael S. Hart

Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet.

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Mosaic (web browser)

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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NABU Network

The NABU Network was an early home computer system which was linked to a precursor of the Internet, operating over cable TV.

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National Federation of Advanced Information Services

National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is a United States non-profit institutional membership organization of content and technology providers, specifically those that support the authoritative information needs and activities of professionals across a spectrum of scholarly disciplines and fields of research.

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National Information Infrastructure

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) was the product of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991.

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Net.art

net.art refers to a group of artists who have worked in the medium of Internet art since 1994.

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NPL network

The NPL Network or NPL Data Communications Network was a local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory in England that pioneered the concept of packet switching.

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Nupedia

Nupedia was an English-language web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content.

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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage about Internet anonymity which began as a cartoon caption by Peter Steiner and published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993.

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Outline of computer engineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer engineering: Computer engineering – discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software.

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Outline of information technology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to information technology: Information technology (IT) – microelectronics based combination of computing and telecommunications technology to treat information, including in the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information.

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Outline of technology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to technology: Technology – collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures used by humans.

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Outline of telecommunication

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to telecommunication: Telecommunication – the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication.

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Outline of the Internet

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.

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PARC Universal Packet

The PARC Universal Packet (commonly abbreviated to PUP or PuP, although the original documents usually use Pup) was one of the two earliest internetwork protocol suites; it was created by researchers at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s.

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Peter T. Kirstein

Peter Thomas Kirstein (born 1933) is a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet; he is "often recognized as the father of the European Internet".

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Superhighway Summit

The Superhighway Summit was held at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall on 11 January 1994.

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The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

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Timeline of computing

Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.

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Timeline of Internet conflicts

The Internet has a long history of turbulent relations, major maliciously designed disruptions (such as wide scale computer virus incidents, DOS and DDOS attacks that cripple services, and organized attacks that cripple major online communities), and other conflicts.

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Timeline of Yahoo!

The following is a timeline of events of Yahoo!.

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TOTSE

TOTSE (commonly mispronounced as "toot-see," "toat-see," or "toats") was a San Francisco Bay Area website and former BBS dedicated to storing text files on a variety of subjects and viewpoints, many of which were unusual or controversial.

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UKNOF

UKNOF (United Kingdom Network Operators' Forum) is an open forum for the exchange of operational and technical information for Internet network operators in the United Kingdom.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Veni Markovski

Veni Milanov Markovski is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer, co-founder and CEO (until 2002) of bol.bg, the second in the history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider.

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Viant

Viant Inc. was a multi-national Internet consulting firm, founded in San Francisco in April 1996, that was one of the first web consulting firms during the early stages of the Internet era.

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Wirearchy

Wirearchy is the power structure created as the Information Age unfolded, disrupting hierarchical organizations and the fundamental construct of access to knowledge.

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Yahoo! data breaches

The Internet service company Yahoo! reported two major data breaches of user account data to hackers during the second half of 2016.

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You didn't build that

"You didn't build that" is a phrase from an 2012 election campaign speech delivered by former United States President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia.

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.mil

The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations.

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2016 in the United States

Events in the year 2016 in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

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