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Internet History

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The sphere of computer is expanding rapidly. Computer networking, computer mail and electronic publication are only a small number of the applications that have been emerged in the current years. Advancements in technologies emerge to generate cheaper and more strengthened computers entailing the promise that in the near future, computers or terminals will reside in most, if not all homes, offices and school. This has also given rise to the extensive exposure of the Internet. In this context it is worthwhile to accord stress on the history of the Internet. (A Short History of the Computer (b.c -- 1993 a.d)) The Internet was the outcome of some creative thinking by people in the beginning years of the 1960s who visualized increased potential value in permitting computers to split information on research and development in scientific and military fields. During 1962 the vision for a global network of computers was first conceived by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT and deployed in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA during the late 1962 to champion the mission and progress it. (A Brief History of the Internet)

Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and afterwards UCLA devised the process of packet switching that was to form the fundamentals of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT interlinked the Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over the dial-up telephone lines. It envisaged the viability of wide area networking, but also represented that the circuit of the telephone line switching is insufficient. The strategy of packet switching as enunciated by Kleinrock was established. Roberts deployed in DARPA in 1966 and devised his own strategy for ARPANET. Such visionaries and many more lacking the due recognition are considered to be the real founders of Internet. The Internet then regarded as the ARPANET was interlinked

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online in 1969 under the lease contact by Advanced Research Projects Agency that at the beginning linked to four major computers at universities in the southwestern U.S. such as, UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah. (A Brief History of the Internet)

The proponents of ARPANET had always regarded as the information and resource sharing as one of their elementary objective. Of course the construction of ARPANET had been assumed to accomplish that very objective but it would be just to visualize that their scope of operation were confined to the exchange scholarly, technical papers and programs through ftp. Tomlinson of ARPANET could succeed in transmission of the first e-mail of World, adhering to an existing, popular, time share internal mail program and linking it to the new network file transfer technology that strengthened further functioning of the ARPANET. The first electronic mail was simply to own name from one computer to another with the text line consisting of the words 'Testing 1-2-3'. Subsequently, he attempted in sending the message to all users of ARPANET making them aware of the existence of the electronic mail and instructing them as to how to address mail to another user applying the convention- users' log-in-name @ host computer name- that is still constitute the fundamental behind the present day e-mail. That was an initiation, but it was even astonishingly crude. The only mode of knowing what was in a message was to reveal it in its entirety. Innovations pursued thick and fast. (Chapter Three: History of Electronic Mail)

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