A Brief History of the Internet
P.C.
"Single largest legal creation of wealth on the planet"
According to Steve Ballmer, this drives the Internet
ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency (Eisenhower)
email invented by whom, when
BBN and Ray Tomlinson, 1922
U.S. Pentagon
Birthplace of Internet
National Computer Network
Bob Taylor's mission, cost $1 Million to start
Computer technician
Bob Taylor's responsibility at ARPA/the Pentagon
Severo Ornstein
CS for social responsibility
3 Com
Current name of SF Giants park
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Killer app of Mac
Desktop Publishing
Apollo 8
First sent astronauts to orbit moon
BBN
High tech company in the Boston Area
IMP
Interface Message Processor, called a router today
Len Kleinrock
Larry's friend, CS prof at UCLA, uncovered pocket switching and message switching
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Association (Kennedy)
Architech
Original name of company started by 6 guys in a garage
Candlestick Park
Previous name of SF Giants park
Gemini
Program that sent men regularly into orbit
Protocol
Rules that control how different computers talk to each other
Sputnik
Russian space ship, sent up in 1964
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocal. Invented by Vince Cerf and Bob Kahn and determined how networks connect and talk.
Vint Cerf
UCLA prof, helped design ARPA
Vinod Khosa
Venture capitalist who funded Architech/Excite
Goped
What did Edwin Chiu create?
Adult supervision
Young guys hiring older CEO
Device for communication
advantage of internet
Excite
current name of company started by 6 guys in a garage
ATT and IBM
declined to be involved in building of mainframe network over telephone lines
surf
drew Norm Abramson to Hawaii
Killer app of Internet
LOGIN
first internet message
whole earth catalog
founded by Hippie/Hacker Stewart Brand
Larry Roberts
gambler
Dave Walden
juggler
Packet
little chunks of information, numbered. Info is sent in them, including their origin and destination
Timeshare
name of system that allowed more people computer access to a mainframe
use of radio
networking technology used to in Hawaii instead of phone lines
Problems with ARPA net
no common language or way to communicate
Negative
reaction of colleges, did not wish to share network
Killer app of IBM/PC
spreadsheet
Apollo
succeeded Gemini for lunar missions
Frank Hart
system engineer, tough manager
Las Vegas
true birthplace of Information Age
Amazon.com
virtual bookstore
Lick
visionary psychologist
Info tech as a big business
what the company Architech/Excite was smart enough to see
Now
when is the information age?
UCLA, Stanford, U of Utah, U of Santa Barbara
where Taylor began ARPA net
Bob Kahn
worked for BBN, helped design ARPA
$10 Billion
worth of Architech guys after company went public