Evolution of the Internet
In 1957, after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA. Soon after, Dr. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT wrote the first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking.1 This idea of "networking" was tossed around at MIT, UCLA, and at the RAND Corporation, which eventually led to ARPANET. Thanks to Licklider's expertise, he soon integrated ARPA from military use to private universities. From the early days back in the 60s, till the present, the Internet as we know it has been ever changing, ever since.Initially, the "internet" had only 4 nodes, or hosts. As of January 2002, there were 147, 344, 723 hosts.2 In 1991, "Father of the Internet", Timothy Berners Lee, and other researchers at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics made it possible to connect content throughout these networks using hypertext links. Prior to the "Web," local dial-up networks could be
From the early to mid nineties, the Internet has literally soared. In just June of 1993 there were merely 130 web sites; by 1994, there were 3,000. Presently, there are millions of web sites on the Internet. These web sites are categorized into domains based on the nature of their content. .com, .net, .edu, .mil, .org, and .int are the three level domains that are currently in use. We may soon see four letter domains. The current trends in development of the Internet are described below: · Wireless networks. Wireless communication has two great advantages -- there are no infrastructure costs, and it enables mobility. Wireless technologies will rapidly improve, providing reliable, high bandwidth technology that can work in crowded city centers, and on the move, providing the same mobility as the cellular phone. Licklider's vision of networking probably did not include the Internet as it is today, nor what it will be in the future. Currently, an "Internet 2" is in the works. According to www.internet2.com, "I
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