HISTORY OF INTERNET

Followirg the succesthil launch of Sputnik in 1937 by the Russians, USA felt the need of research in certain focused areas. Therefore. Advance Research Project Agency IARPAt was forricel to fund Science and 'technology projects and position USA as a leader in technology Internet represents one of the best eke:up/es of the benefits of sustained investment on research and development through ARP& Beginning with the early research in packet switching. the government. industry and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying the exciting Internet technology. People in almost all parts of life starting from education. IT, telecommunications. business, and society at large have felt the influence of this pervasive information ir.frastructurc. Today, almost anybody and everybody on the street uses terms like laculty@iiitb.ac.in' or 'hup://wwwisoc.org' In the early sixties, Leonard Kleinoxk developed the basic principles of packet swi:ching at 34 Lt During the same period Paul Ratan in a series of RAND Corporation reports recommended several ways to accomphsh packet switch network as well In 1965 Lawrence C. Roberts in avociation with Thomas Merrill, connected the 1X-2 computer in Massachusetts to the (2:32 in California with a low speed dial up telephone line ere minis the first computer network. In 1171 Ray "lomlinson at t3BN wrote the software to send and read simple electronic mail. In October 1972 demonstration of the ARRANET was done at the International Computer Communication Conference (.1CCOi. This was the first public demonsuation of this new network technology to the public. It was also ir PE2 that the initial *hoc application. electronic mail, was introduced. In I97J work began on the Transmission Control Protocol ,:Tcr; at a Stanford University laboratory headed by Vincent Cerf. In 19S6. the U.S. NSF ;National Science Foundation; Undated the development oldie NSFNEI which provides a major backbone communication service for the Internet. In Eaton°, major international backbones such as NORDUN ET and others provide con-nectivity, to a huge number ',Networks. Internet slowly evolved as the universal network of netwoi la, which cosmetic almost every data networks oldie world with a each spread over the whole earth. It can be debated as to what the definition and scope of this global network is. (hi 24 October 1995, the Federal Net-working Council IFNCi unanimously passed a revolutionist LO officially define die mini Internet. Attending to this CeS011iti011, the definition of Internet is 'Internet refers to the global information system that i is /obi-all, linked together by a globally unique address sliace based on the Internet Protocol P: or its subsequent extensional-on; ire is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protectionism Protocol „TSP/IP: mule at its subsequent exterisionalfol/nw-rms, arid/or other Irreparable protocols; and 1.iift provides, uses or