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From Dima Boyko → To All 9 February 2001
Khayushki, All!
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2.1. ARPANET Chronology - INTERNET
Current Internet history
not written yet, although it has already appeared
many notes and individual articles. All
these materials are located on the Internet itself
[1,2,3]; even dissertations appeared,
dedicated to its history [4]. Let's try
years to consider the main events,
that were related to the Internet.
In 1962, ARPA research on
military application issues
computer technology headed by doctor
Licklider (J.C.R. Licklider), who
proposed to use for these purposes
interaction of existing government
computers. He contributed
involvement of private companies in this work
sector and university scientists. In this
same year there was a report completed
Paul Baran in the corporation
RAND for the Air Force, "On
Distribution Communications", in which
various models have been studied
communication systems and evaluated them
survivability. The report suggested
decentralized control system and
connection that would continue
function in case of failure
parts of the system. One of the recommendations
the author concerned the construction of the system
digital data transmission for large
number of users.Soon the main direction
steel research carried out by the agency
computer networks. The main idea was
in building a network of peer nodes,
each of whom had to have
own receiving, processing and
formation of messages that should have
ensure high network survivability even
when many nodes fail.
First experiments on unification
remote nodes were already carried out in
1965, when they were connected
Massachusetts TX-2 computers
Institute of Technology (MIT Lincoln
Lab) and Q-32 SDC Corporation (System
Development Corporation) in Santa Monica.
True, the exchange of packets between them is
time has not yet been spent, exchange
was carried out character by character.
In 1967, at the ACM symposium (Asso-
ciation for Computer Machinery) was
presented a plan to create a national
networks with packet transmission. Soon after
Roberts Symposium (Lawrence G. Roberts)
published a plan for building such a network -
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects
Agency NETwork), and already in 1969 mi-
The Department of Defense approved ARPANET in
as a leading organization for research
advances in the field of computer networks.
The first node of the new network was UCLA -
Network Test Center, and soon to it
joined Stanford Research
Tel Institute (SRI), UCSB - Cul-ler-Fried Interactive Mathematics (uni-
Santa Barbara University) and university
Utah. The nodes used IMP (Inter-
face Message Processor) developed by
Bolt Baranec & Newman, Inc.
(BBN). The first transfers were carried out
signs from one car to another. Appeared
first RFC (Request for Comments) -
"Host Software" by S. Crocker.
AT&T Lab developed an operating system
UNIX system. This year can be considered the year
home of the beginning of the network revolution.
Since 1970, ARPANET hosts began to use
use NCP - Network for exchange
Control Protocol.
At the beginning of 1971, there were already 15
nodes: UCLA, SRI, UCSB, University of
Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard Lin-
coln Lab., Stanford, UIU(C), CWRI, CMU,
NASA/A, which united 23 hosts. In the same
BBN's Ray Tomlinson
proposed a mail program for re-
sending messages over the network. At the university
Hawaii under the leadership of N. Abrahamson
(N. Abrahamson) was developed by ALONA-
net.
In 1972, at an international conference
rent on computers and communications was pro-
demonstrated interaction TIP (Ter-
minal Interface Processor) with 40 machines
networks. In the same year the group was created
INWG (InterNetworking Working Group) under
chaired by Professor Stan-
Ford University Vinton Kirff
(Vinton Cerf) for addressing development,necessary to harmonize various
protocols. Kirf together with a group of as-
pirants was developed by a group of prototypes
stakes of exchange, which later turned into
were in TCP/IP. "If only I had known that the protocol
TCP/IP will become an international industrial
standard used by millions of people
day,” noted V. Kirf in 1994, “I
would choose more than 32 bits, ad-
fresh space and be more careful
would rush to high-speed environments with
long delay" [5]. Was published
The Telnet specification (RFC 454) is forged. B
this year the first commercial
a version of UNIX written in C. Success
UNIX exceeded all expectations.
First international connections to
ARPANET was implemented in 1973,
when machines from
England (University College of London) and
Norway (Rogee Radar Establishment). B
the same year satellite satellite was launched
communication line with the University of Hawaii. B
September 1973 Kirf and Katz (Kahn)
presented the main ideas of the national
networks at the INWG meeting in England and published
rejoiced at the article
"A Protocol for Packet Network Inter-
communications" in which the
we have details of the design of the software program
Transmission Control
program). In mid-1975, DARPA
concluded that ARPANET is stable and
control of the Internet was transferred to the DCA(Defense Communications Agency, now from
known as DISA - Defense Information
Systems Agency).
In 1976, Mike Lesk from
AT&T Bell Labs developed the UUCP protocol
(Unix-to-Unix Copy), and within a year
this protocol began to be supplied with
UNIX OS version 7; UUCP Berkeley version
was implemented a little later. Pro-
TCP/IP protocols have become ubiquitous
use to connect to ARPANET.
This period of time is characterized
was a general increase in the number of different se-
tey. THEORYNET was born in 1977.
developed by L. Landweber (L. Landwe-
ber) from the University of Wisconsin. B
network, uniting about 100 specialists
com on computer technology, application
e-mail and Telnet were available. Was
electronic specification published
mail
(RFC 733). Timshare founded
Tymnet. There was a demonstration of mutual
actions ARPANET, PRNET (Packet Radio
Net), Ethernet and SATNET (Satellite
Net-work) based on Internet protocols.
In 1979, based on UUCP, the
on USENET. The PRNET network came under the auspices
DARPA.
ARPANET now actually consisted of
two intersecting networks. One was
working for ARPA researchers, another
served for testing and development.
In January 1981, in order to determine
increasing the degree of suitability for the ministry
defense offered by various developmentswas created by computer systems nerds
Mini Computer Security Center
Defense Security Council (DSC)
Center). Operation of BITNET has begun
(Because It's Time NETwork) and CSNET.
In 1982, DCA and ARPA established
as the basis for building the Internet
Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP).
US Department of Defense January 1
1983 declared TCP/IP its standard
vol. It was announced that ARPANET was law-
completed the research stage, but skipped
should remain under the direction of DAR-
PA and DCA. Introduction developed in Vis-
Consin University name server bo-
no longer required users to know
digital address of the required machine. B
in the same year the entire ARPANET was transferred
from NCP to TCP/IP. From the ARPANET you-
the MILNET (Military Network) network was shared,
intended only for military exchanges
new information. Desktops appeared
workstations running Berkeley UNIX OS, which
which included IP connection programs.
IAB (Internet Activities) was created
Board). The next version of UNIX OS Berke-
ley release 4.2 BSD included TCP/IP. Was
the gateway between ARPANET was put into operation
and CSNET.
In 1984, the DNS system (Do-
main Name System). Total number of hosts in
networks exceeded 1,000.
In September 1985, DSC was renamed
novan at the National Computer Centersecurity - NCSC (National Computer
Security Center), which came under
Directorate of the National Security Agency
security - NSA (National Security Agency)
cy). NSF (National Science) was created
Foundation), whose goal was to
building the CSNET network (Computer Science
Network) to unite national
computer centers, many of which
did not have access to the ARPANET.
Work on the formation of CSNET intensified
were created in 1986, when the creation of
development of supercomputer centers. In re-
As a result, the NSFNET network was created
with main data transmission speed
nykh - 56 Kbps. The network was based on 5
supercomputer centers in Princeton,
Pittsburgh, UCSD, NCSA and Cornell University
university This allowed significantly
increase the amount of data transferred
between universities. Was developed and
implemented NNTP (Network News Transfer Pro-
tocol) for increased productivity
Usenet news.
The number of hosts in 1987 exceeded 10
000. The number of BITNET hosts has reached 1,000.
The construction of NSFNET began to be carried out by con-
sortia IBM, MCI and MERIT.
November 2, 1988 graduate of the Cor-
Neil University Robert Tappan
Morris launched his program online,
which, due to an error, began to
control distribution and multiple
new infection of network nodes. In re-
As a result, about 6,200 were infectedmachines, which amounted to 7.3% of the total number
ness of machines on the network. After analyzing the event
ty DARPA formed CERT (Computer
Emergency Response Team). NSFNET Network
switched to main speed T1
(1.544 Mbps). Connect to the NSFNET network
Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Norway,
Finland, France and Sweden.
In 1989, the number of hosts exceeded
100,000. The IETF was formed under the auspices of the IAB.
(Internet Engineering Task Force) and IRTF
(Internet Research Task Force). To the network
Australia, Great Britain joined,
Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Ni-
Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and
Japan.
In 1990, ARPANET itself
ratified its existence, its functions
continued NSFNET. Connected to the network
Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil,
Greece, India, Ireland, Spain, Chile,
Switzerland and South Korea.
In 1991 at the University of Maine
P. Lindner and Mark McCa-
Hill (Mark P. McCahill) developed a program
Gopher frame. At CERN (Centre European
pour la Recherche Nucleare) Tim Behr-
Tim Berness-Lee developed
World-Wide Web (WWW). Philip Zimmerman
(Philip Zimmermen) implemented PGP (Pret-
ty Good Privacy). The NFSNET network has become used
use highways at T3 speed
(44.736 Mbps). Traffic began to be
10 billion packages per month, which co-
was 1 trillion bytes/month. To the networkHungary, Hong Kong, Poland joined,
Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, Taiwan,
Tunisia, Czech Republic and South Africa.
The number of hosts in 1992 exceeded 1
000 000. IAB Service (Internet Activities
Board) was reorganized into the Internet
Architecture Board and became part of the
Internet Society. K
networks connected Venezuela, Cameroon,
Cyprus, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malay
Asia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Equa-
Dor and Estonia.
In 1993, NSF created InterNIC to
implementation of specific Internet services:
directory and database services, services
registration and information service. K
NSFNET connected Virgin Islands,
Bulgaria, Ghana, Guam, Egypt, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Costa Rica, Lich-
Tenstein, United Arab Emirates,
Peru, Romania, Türkiye, Ukraine, Fiji and,
finally, Russia.
Since 1994, trading began
activities via the network. NSFNET traffic
exceeded 10 trillion bytes/month. By
popularity among WWW users
bypassed Telnet. Al-
fat, Armenia, Bermuda, Burki-
Faso, Jamaica, Lebanon, Lithuania, China,
Colombia, Morocco, Masau, Niger, Nicara-
Gua, New Caledonia, Panama, Swaziland,
Senegal, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Philippines,
Sri Lanka and French Polynesia.
Since 1995, domain name registration
no longer free. Starting from 14September for registration, which is before this-
was subsidized by NSF, fees apply
in the amount of $50. Since April NSFNET, su-
existed only thanks to the support
government, disappeared, and was established
Lena commercial system. Internet pro-
owed its existence.
On January 1, 1996, the network united
9,472,000 hosts.
.
With the best, Dima Boyko.