ARPANET

The internet is called the highway of information by many people, and funny enough the same man who gave us the federal highway act also gave us the precursor to the internet. It was called Arpanet and was developed and funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency which is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A man by the name of Leonard Kleinrock was the main architect in the internet’s design, a brilliant man who made several contributions to computer science. The goal was to create a mass communication system that could handle a plethora of data if and when a nuclear war were to occur. This was the forerunner to the internet. A thing we now see as something for peace, education and over all prosperity would be used…

The results came in and they were extremely poor, Roberts then realized the computers were inefficient because the circuit-ran telephone line system they were using was inadequate in keeping up with the communication between the two computers. This furthermore confirmed Roberts’ notion that packet switching was necessary in order to make Licklider’s dream of “a galactic network” a reality for everyday people. In 1966, Roberts approached DARPA with his plan regarding the computer network concept…

the airplane, the automobile, and the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” This quote was said by Mark Kennedy an American writer. As this may be a funny quote it is also true. Technology has been growing rapidly over the course of history. We lived in a world where writing letters were the normal thing to do. However, things have changed and people are not the way they use to be. We have become anti-social and a shy society. It has come to a…

The first prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s when the U.S. created ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. This agency was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, but why the department of the defense who may ask. Well, in October 4th, 1957 Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1, according to Nasa, the sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite in space and it was about the size of a beach ball, this launch ushered in new political, military, technological,…

Postel’s comments led to the creation of TCP/IP architecture, and the splitting of TCP into TCP at the transport layer and IP at the network layer. Then in November, 1977, a three-network TCP/IP test was conducted between sites in the US, UK, and Norway. (CITE) 1978 saw version 3 of TCP as the process of dividing TCP into two parts began. Then in 1980 the first formal standard versions (version 4) of IP and TCP were created to be used in modern networks. In 1981 the Internet Protocol (IP) was…

This ARPANET was under development since 1962 when J.C Licklider from MIT was thinking of a way for people to quickly access information anywhere. It was funded by the the US defence department because they wanted to facilitate the sharing of resources and informations for military and research personal. The ARPANET was shown to a larger audience in 1972 along with a tool that would provide instant messaging over great distances called Email. This tool allowed the creators of the ARPANET to…

Origin The Internet has proven to be one of the greatest advancements of the twentieth century. So much so that many could not bear the possibility of not having access to it at all times. The Internet has gone through three basic forms during it’s growth, it started as an idea, became a reality as ARPANET, and expanded to the world as the Internet that is known today. Johnny Ryan points out in his book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future that the Internet is the result of a desire…

frivolous things.”(Invention) The U.S. Defense Department wanted to find ways information could be distributed no matter what happens even if it is a nuclear attack. “They needed a government weapon in the Cold War.” (Invention) This led to the formation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) which is the government’s computer network and which evolved into the Internet as we think of it today. Scientists and military people questioned what happens if the Soviets attack on…

TCP/IP Transmission control Protocol/Internet protocol used to connect host computers on internet. First internet ARPANET was developed when US Department of research projects agency (ARPA) in the end of 1970s needed a system to share the resources of their big mainframe systems. In start ARPANET used Network Control Protocol but in 1974 TCP protocol was introduced and all pervious protocols were replaced with TCP Protocol. TCP/IP was the leader in protocols used as a communication protocol on…

And was it created by a one company? What was the ARPAnet? Who did invent the Internet, and why, and when? Well, all of these questions are answered in this great book, “Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet”. This book is unlike any other technical book that you will found today, in the sense of readability. It reads along smoothly, pulling in a reader’s attention while also managing to teach them a lot along the way! Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon have explained the origins…