1970
During the 70'd the internet was vastly improved. During 1970, more hosts were
set up. Different protocols were created and used, and general improvements were
made in the system.
1971
There are now 15 nodes (hosts) total in the US, located in
· UCLA
· SRI
· UCSB
· Univ of Utah
· BBN
· MIT
· RAND
· SDC
· Harvard
· Lincoln Lab
· Stanford
· UIU(C)
· CWRU
· CMU
· NASA/Ames
There are also 23 hosts total on the Internet.
E-mail is created, and so is a system that can hold up to 64 hosts. CYPNET AND
SENDMSG are both formed, one being email systems and the other being a file
transfer system.
1972
The Internet continues its growth, and ARPANET decides to give a public
demonstration of the 'net to increase awareness and interest. The public
demonstration was held in the basement of a Hilton hotel and ended up being an
enormous success.
· The first email management program is created by Larry Roberts.
· The first chat room is created.
· Advanced networking was developed by International Network Working Group.
· A French ARPANET is under construction.
· Telnet specifications are made.
1973
· ARPANET decides to go international and develops systems in England and
Norway.
· Bob Metcalfe creates the ideas for Ethernet in his PhD thesis for Harvard,
which was eventually tested on systems.
· RFC 454 is developed. This is the beginning of FTP, or file transfer
protocol. It outlined different standards and specifications.
· Network Voice Protocol is developed, which allowed users or ARPANET to make
conference calls, which was very useful.
· Email currently makes up 75% of the total use of ARPANET….just shows you
that it stated in the beginning.
· The Harvard computer system faces problems, which are eventually solved.
· Gateway Architecture is first invented. It was supposedly sketched on the
back of an enveloped
1974
· The first commercial version of ARPANET is created by BBN.
· The specifications of the Transmission Control Program are created which is
the basis of all communication
During this year, the Internet was on its way to being public. As of 1973, it
was more of private organizations that used it. Now it started to grow into the
massive public network.
1975
· The first mailing list is created on the ARPANET systems, called MsgGroup and
was run by Steve Walker. Another man took over running it because unlike today,
the system was not automated.
· Msg is created. This is a total email package that allowed reading, writing,
replying, sending, and forwarding of email.
· Hawaii is connected to the net using satellite, now covering the two biggest
oceans around.
· Shockave Writer is created by a guy named John Brunner.
1976
· The Queen of England sends an email!
· Unix-to-Unix Copy is created at AT& T Bell Labs.
· Unix is still used today, and is actually not only the oldest, but most
widely used operating systems among universities and labs.
· Networking exposed many, and allowed computers to share files and grow
rapidly.
1977
· THEORYNET is created. This was program that provided email to over 100
researchers.
· The RFC 733 is created. This is the mail standards (or specifications).
· The amount of host computers breaks 100.
1978
· It seems as if not much happened this year, just another specification was
created (RFC 748). '79 makes up for the quiet '78.
1979
· DARPA, the NSF, and many other organizations get together to create a
research computer network.
· USENET is established.
· Packet Radio Network (PRNET) is experimented with. It was funded by DARPA.
· April 12, 1979, emoticans are created. For all of you in the
"older" generation (ie. Anyone over around 25 or so) an emotican is an
emotion on the Internet which is drawn in text. Ehhh….it's too hard to put
into words. These are emoticans (tilt your head to the left a little if you
can't figure it out):
o : )
o :*(
o :-P
· Many new discussion groups were formed.
· Interactive games are now playable over the net, and databases are now
becoming popular.
On
to the 80's and beyond! Go to part III of III.
