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Foil 4 History of the Internet

From Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW) ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *

1969 The first locations commissioned by DOD (ARPA)
1971 # host computers = 23
1982 Standards for TCP and IP established.
1983-4 Name server and domain name server developed.
1984 #host computers > 1,000
1986 NSFNET backbone established, 56Kbps
1987 #host computers > 10,000
1989 NSFNET backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps)
  • #host computers > 100,000
1992 Internet Society is chartered, World Wide Web released by CERN
  • NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps)
    • #host computers > 1,000,000
1993 NSF experiments with 600 Megabit backbone
  • #host computers > 2,000,000



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