FREE ESSAY ON BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

Internet History Report
The Internet was created in 1969 by scientists working for ARPA. ARPA stands for advanced
research projects agency, and was formed to create a network of computers that could save
information in the event of a nuclear attack. UCLA, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UC
Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City were the first ARPANET
locations. The ARPANET is what is now called the Internet. The plan was unprecedented: A
professor at UCLA, and his small group of graduate students hoped to log onto the
Stanford computer and try to send it some data. They would start by typing login, and
asking by telephone if the letters appeared on the far-off monitor. On their first
attempt, the "L" and "O" were transmitted successfully, but after they typed the letter
"G" the system crashed.
From 1969 to 1983 a lot of different packet switching schemes were tried and
TCP/IP is what grew OUT of ARPANET, not what started ARPANET. During most of the
seventies, the protocol was generally referred to as just the Network Control Protocol or
NCP. The term Internet was probably first applied to a 1973 research program that
culminated in a demonstration system in 1977. It demonstrated networking through various
mediums, including satellite, radio, telephone, ethernet, etc. using packet switching.
And this formed the roots of the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP). But it was not until 1983 that all nodes on ARPANET were required to use TCP/IP
to connect to it.
Also in 1983, the Department of Defense moved the unclassified portions of the Data
Defense Network to create MILLET. Then in January 1983, the ARPA Internet first appears
and operation was passed to the Defense Communications Agency.
The first operating, non-experimental, real live Internet with a capital network, was a
military network with a couple of hundred computers connected to it. Universities and the
general public were not welcome on the ARPANET. It was a network for Department of
Defense contractors and military sites. Then a group of military contractors with strong
ties to business and universities not on the MILLET were constantly in a situation where
many of their peers were not on the Net while they were on. They began campaigning for
access for other researchers. In 1984 the National Science Foundation established an
office for networking. a number of
universities and research groups actually did get access to ARPANET.
In 1993, Tim Lee created an interface to the World Wide Web he called Mosaic. The NSF
actually funded further development of a Macintosh and Microsoft Windows version of
Mosaic through a grant to the University. The first Microsoft Windows version appeared
about November of 1993. The Mosaic Web Browser put a pretty face on the Internet. You
could navigate the World Wide Web by clicking on links with the mouse. More importantly,
it allowed users to add players for sound, video clips, or anything else they wanted to
add. Today, advanced Mosaic browsers such as Netscape have added other functions quite
beyond World Wide Web, including electronic mail.
Electronic mail, or E-mail as it is commonly called, was invented by Ray Tomlinson in
1971 as a way of sending messages of the Internet to other users on-line. His program for
sending E-mail was called SNDMSG, which stands for send message. Now E-mail has grown so
much that next year people will send an estimated 6 trillion messages. 
A new use for the Internet that is influencing the lives of many Internet users is the
creation of E-wrestling leagues. E-wrestling is a type of game in which you create
wrestling matches over E-mail. You can challenge other members of your E-fed (a group of
members in your league) by posting messages on the message board. The other member will
then respond to your challenge by writing back on the message board. If the commissioner
approves of the match then he will send an E-mail to the two members telling when the
match will take place. There are two ways a commissioner can create matches, depending on
the rules of your federation. One way is to write out the entire match. This takes a long
time and the results are based on the opinion of the commissioner. The other way involves
using a computer to decide the winner. My federation uses "Zeus", a computer program
found on the Internet, to simulate the matches. The good thing about this type of match
is it can be made quickly, the matches are fair and based on wrestlers attributes, and
many gimmick matches can be downloaded off of the Net. However the match is made, the
next step is for the commissioner to post the match results on the federation Web page.
To run a good E-fed, the commissioner needs to have a good knowledge of the Internet and
knowledge of pro-wrestling. 
E-wrestling is becoming very popular. There are over ****** different E-feds on the
Internet, some with more than one hundred members. As the Internet and pro-wrestling
continue to grow in popularity, E-wrestling can expect a similar increase. This is why in
the future E-wrestling will have an impact on many more people.
In conclusion, the Internet has grown from its humble beginnings to a massive network of
networks. The Internet's rich history will always be preserved through the hundreds of
sites on the Web dedicated to Internet history. The Internet will continue to grow, and
with this growth will come new advances in technology. After 30 years the Internet is
still not finished. It will keep getting bigger and better, until one day when a nuclear
bomb destroys the Earth, killing the entire population, but at least our software,
hardware, information, and data will be safe.