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CS101 Lecture 07: History of the Internet

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John Magee

9 July 2013

PBS Documentary Series

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Watch Part 1. Parts 2 and 3 are optional. Part 1: Networking the Nerds: Part 1: Networking the Nerds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMvASPzXE-M

Part 2: Serving the Suits: Part 2: Serving the Suits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOldgIq3GXo

Part 3: Wiring the World: Part 3: Wiring the World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMvASPzXE-M

Transcript/history as text available here:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/

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Part 1: Networking the Nerds

– 00:00 - boring stuff about nerd kids -- skip it – 19:50 - space race intro -- start here – 22:00 - computers of the 1960s – 24:17 - Pentagon/ARPA – 28:21 - ARPA RFQ – 32:15 - MIT/BBN – 35:10 - packets – 39:47 - IMP, testing – ??:?? - hippies/hackers – 48:00 - AlohaNET – 50:00 - ARPA Show in Washington DC – 53:20 -TCP/IP – 55:13 – email Watching Part 1 – 19:50 to end

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Part 1 Discussion

“Killer app” for the net?

– Computer: A machine for computing to a machine for communication. – Email – What has that evolved to now?

• Social networking, Facebook, etc.
• What’s next?

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Part 2: Serving the Suits (Optional)

– 00:00 – Intro – 03:10 - Bob Metcalfe – 05:15 - Xerox PARC – 08:05 - Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, personal computers, 3com – 10:15 - Ethernet/Sun Workstation – 11:35 - Stanford (Cisco, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems) – 20:10 - Novell – 27:10 - Microsoft – 35:00 - The WELL – 38:00 - McAfee – 45:45 - Len Bosak @ Stanford – 48:30 - Stanford/bridges/routers – 49:30 - Cisco born – 51:45 - VCs, Don Valentine – 57:06 - Sandy/Urban Decay, Len/SETI

Watch 2:50 – 8:00 for history of Ethernet 3 aspects of information technology: PCs, Software, and Networking

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Ethernet

 Bob Metcalf’s napkin sketch:

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Part 3: Wiring the World (Optional)

– 00:00 – Intro – 05:40 - Tim Berners-Lee – 08:00 - Ted Nelson – 10:25 - World Wide Web Consortium – 11:55 - Commerce on the Net - legislation – 13:10 - Marc Andreesen , Mosaic, Netscape – ???? – “current” web circa 1999 – Pre dot.com bubble bust – 32:00 – Amazon.com – 35:00 – India, World economy – 40:30 – Java – 45:30 – Microsoft finally responds – 56:00 – Nobody owns the internet, wrap up “The ubiquity of the internet is more important than the technology of the internet” – Jeff Bezos, found over Amazon.com “The killer app for the internet is tele-presence: it’s using the net to be places that you don’t have to go to”

• Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and 3Com founder.

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Before the Internet Was Personal

Until the web became popular, the internet was mostly a tool for universities, government, etc. Personal communication was on:

– Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) – Online Services – CompuServe, Delphi, Genie, Prodigy, MSN, AOL

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Growth of the Internet

1981: 200 hosts 1985: 2000 hosts 1987: 10,000 1989: 80,000 in January, 130,000 in July to over 160,000 in November! 1990: 300,000 hosts 1991: 600,000 hosts 2012: 900 Million!

http://www.isc.org/solutions/survey

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Take-Away Points

– DoD, BBN, ARPAnet, AlohaNet – packet switching, routers – Protocols, TCP/IP – What if Microsoft or AOL cornered (“owned”) the internet? – Be aware of the characters and organizations involved in creating the Internet!

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Student ToDo’s

 HW02 Alice due Tomorrow @ Class

– Finish Lab02 – 1.9 or 1.10 (Your own story or movie scene)

 HW03 due Monday  Quiz 1 on Thursday

– 5 questions, 25 minutes – All material through Today

 Wednesday: Meet at CS Lab!

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