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  History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Internet went on to fundamentally alter and affect the economy of the world, including the economic implications of the dot-com bubble.
In 1992, the Internet Society, a professional membership society, was formed and the IETF was transferred to operation under it as an independent international standards body.
Since at this point in history most of the growth on the Internet was coming from non-military sources, it was decided that the Department of Defense would no longer fund registration services outside of the.mil TLD.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_internet   (4651 words)

  
 History - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth." When used as the name of a field of study, history means human history, which is the recorded memory of past human societies.
Although certain amount of bias in history studies is inescapable, national bias being probably the most important, history can also be studied from a narrow ideological perspective, perhaps one that the practitioners feel is usually ignored.
A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history (also called "counterfactual history") been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way to that which they did.
www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/h/hi/history_2.html   (507 words)

  
 Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet
The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.
Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the ARPANET as the pioneering packet switching network, but soon to include packet satellite networks, ground-based packet radio networks and other networks.
The Internet is as much a collection of communities as a collection of technologies, and its success is largely attributable to both satisfying basic community needs as well as utilizing the community in an effective way to push the infrastructure forward.
www.isoc.org /internet/history/brief.shtml   (8627 words)

  
 INTERNET
The Internet is moving out of its original base in military and research institutions, into elementary and high schools, as well as into public libraries and the commercial sector.
Internet mail is "e-mail," electronic mail, faster by several orders of magnitude than the US Mail, which is scornfully known by Internet regulars as "snailmail." Internet mail is somewhat like fax.
Internet file-transfers are becoming a new form of publishing, in which the reader simply electronically copies the work on demand, in any quantity he or she wants, for free.
www.lysator.liu.se /etexts/the_internet.html   (3192 words)

  
 History of the Internet: Preface
The cast of characters is as varied as the Internet itself -- captains of industry and alienated 15-year-old boys, engineers and philosophers, law officers and law breakers, and, for good measure, the occasional mad genius.
These recurring features cover topics such as: insider stories from the hacker culture; the development of the Internet as a medium of mass communication; highlights of philosophical and scholarly thought on the digital revolution; and the relationship of the Internet to broader events in society and politics.
That the Internet is changing the world has reached the level of cliché, and it is not all happening on Wall Street.
www.historyoftheinternet.com /preface.html   (477 words)

  
 Resource Centre for Internet History
If you are a student of history, this is a great place to start your exploration of Internet history.
If you are an internet pioneer and were involved in early developments, we welcome your involvement and your memories, whether by text or on tape.
How the Internet began in many countries and regions of the world is a fascinating story in itself, and we want you to able to access internet history material for every country.
www.nethistory.info   (323 words)

  
 Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet
Internet History and Growth, by William Slater III - Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society [PPT presentation]
History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov
The Internet history from the perspective of a computer geek who likes knowing more than what the instructions simply tell us.
www.isoc.org /internet/history   (665 words)

  
 WDVL: History of the Internet and the World Wide Web
The Internet had its roots during the 1960's as a project of the United States government's Department of Defense, to create a non-centralized network designed to survive partial outages (ie.
The original proposal of the WWW is a hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990.
A brief history of HTML: HTML was originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, and popularized by the Mosaic browser developed at NCSA.
wdvl.com /Internet/History   (1553 words)

  
 History of the Internet and Web
The Internet Worm is released by Robert Morris Jr., affecting about 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet.
The Birth of the Internet by Leonard Kleinrock
A Brief History of the Internet from the Internet Society.
www.anderbergfamily.net /ant/history   (5349 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: Internet History W3: worldwideweb, I-Net, Arpanet, Intel, Apple, IBM
Nethistory [Informal history of BITNET and the Internet]
The History of the Internet for Historians [NL]
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (1996), by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben
vlib.iue.it /history/internet   (1413 words)

  
 Internet / History - WebReference.com:
History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History (*)
A comprehensive overview of the philosophy and history of the Internet.
A brief history of the Internet with timeline and "cast of characters" from the PBS series Life on the Internet.
www.webreference.com /internet/history.html   (487 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Internet
The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields.
The Internet matured in the 70's as a result of the TCP/IP architecture first proposed by Bob Kahn at BBN and further developed by Kahn and Vint Cerf at Stanford and others throughout the 70's.
Since the Internet was initially funded by the government, it was originally limited to research, education, and government uses.
www.walthowe.com /navnet/history.html   (2820 words)

  
 Internet History, How the Internet was invented created
Each of the Internet application chapters starts with a section on the history of how it was invented.
This section describes the history of the underlying Internet itself.
The Internet has become such an integral part of our lives, with such powerful capabilities, that it is easy to forget that this technological marvel was created by the long, hard, dedicated efforts of human beings -- folks who had a vision of what universal networking could become and worked to make it happen.
www.livinginternet.com /i/ii.htm   (185 words)

  
 Internet encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Janes Randi, An Encyclopediaof Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural internet encyclopedia..
"We consider the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine to be one of the most crucialundertakings in Ukrainian scholarship and education," said Dr internet encyclopedia.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Open site in a new window - listings of.Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia internet encyclopedia.
watcheducation.com /internet-encyclopedia.html   (300 words)

  
 Amazon.com: History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present: Books: Hilary Poole,Tami Schuyler,Theresa M. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present (Library Binding)
The History of the Internet (Watts Library) by Josepha Sherman
Because of the intertwining of the Internet with computers in general, History of the Internet can practically be considered a history of computing.
www.amazon.com /History-Internet-Chronology-1843-Present/dp/1576071189   (1233 words)

  
 History of the Internet
The most logical date of origin of the Internet is January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP.
The Cook Report has been published since 1992 by the former Director of the US Congress OffiIt monitors the increasing convergence between voice and data networks as it follows the technologies that are being used by the next generation telcos.
(2) Internet Penetration is the ratio between the sum of Internet users speaking a language and the total population estimate that speaks that referred language.
www.edu-cyberpg.com /Internet/history_internet.html   (3175 words)

  
 History of the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
History of Internet and WWW : View from Internet Valley and a variety of text books.
The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.
In November 2000, after extensive discussions throughout the global Internet community, the ICANN Board selected seven TLD proposals to be included in the first addition of a global TLD to the Internet since the 1980s.
www.cs.cf.ac.uk /Dave/Internet/node16.html   (1696 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index pages, with a number of supplementary documents.
of History: Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European history, published for the Dept. of History of the University of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1897?-1907?].
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook.html   (2650 words)

  
 History of the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In late December, subscribers to Popular Mechanics received their January 1975 issue in the mail, with a prototype of the "Altair" minicomputer on the cover and an article describing how readers could obtain one for less than $400.
The Web grew fast because infrastructure was already in place: the Internet, desktop PC, home modems connected to online services such as AOL and Compuserve.
History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present.
history.acusd.edu /gen/comp/internet-hist.html   (1169 words)

  
 Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly (:jap:); Brendan Kehoe uses the term "net-surfing" as early as 6 June 1991 in a USENET post (:bt1:)
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the geographical areas currently handled by Network Solutions (InterNIC), starting March 1998.
Internet users get to be judges in a performance by 12 world champion ice skaters on 27 March, marking the first time a television sport show's outcome is determined by its viewers.
www.zakon.org /robert/internet/timeline   (8031 words)

  
 Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling
Last year the Internet was growing at a rate of twenty percent a *month.* The number of "host" machines with direct connection to TCP/IP has been doubling every year since 1988.
Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide by Brendan P. Kehoe (1992) Prentice Hall.
w3.aces.uiuc.edu /AIM/scale/nethistory.html   (3201 words)

  
 History of the Internet
The core of this timeline is created from texts by Dave Kristula(1), March 1997; Hobbes Timeline and excerpts from the History of the Internet by C.J.P. Moschovitis e.a.
The existence of the internet is relatively short but the idea of networks is centuries old.
Then came the internet and the world shrunk to the time it took to send a message from New York to Amsterdam.
www.thocp.net /reference/internet/internet1.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Internet & World Wide Web History
A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks by Vincent Cerf
Birth of the Internet (The) by Len Kleinrock
History of the IETF/ISOC relationship by Vincent Cerf
www.elsop.com /wrc/h_web.htm   (156 words)

  
 Computer History Museum - Exhibits - Internet History
This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word ‘Internet’ is invented.
On April 7, Crocker sends around a memo entitled ‘Request for Comments.’ This is the first of thousands of RFCs that document the design of the ARPANET and the Internet.
The team calls itself the Network Working Group (RFC 10), and comes to see its job as the development of a ‘protocol,’ the collection of programs that comes to be known as NCP (Network Control Protocol).
www.computerhistory.org /exhibits/internet_history   (1630 words)

  
 The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected
This section of the History site summarizes and highlights aspects of the more recent history of the Internet and recognizes some of the Internet's key inventions and inventors.
Through the information on these pages, the FCC hopes to inform and, possibly, inspire with a few reminders of the great achievements that make the Internet as we know it today possible.
Information and links on this web page are designed to provide a fuller understanding of the history and technology of the Internet.
www.fcc.gov /omd/history/internet   (122 words)

  
 Maritime History Research on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I hope to create a site that guides visitors in methods of doing maritime history research on the internet.
Throughout these pages, you'll see that I believe you must use print resources and libraries to do comprehensive research, but as resources become available on the internet I hope to highlight them and bring them to your attention here.
These pages were completely overhauled in March and April 2000, based on pages that were begun in May 1995.
ils.unc.edu /maritime/home.shtml   (343 words)

  
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 History of the Internet
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All text copyright © 1999 The Moschovitis Group.
Website produced and maintained by The Moschovitis Group.
www.historyoftheinternet.com   (29 words)

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