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As with any new facility, there will be a period of very light usage until the community of users experiments with the network and begins to depend upon it. One of our goals must be to stimulate the immediate and easy use by a wide class of users. – Steve Crocker; Host Software; RFC 1; 7 April 1969. |
The Internet is named after the Internet Protocol, the standard communications protocol used by every computer on the Internet. The Internet can powerfully leverage your ability to find, manage, and share information. Never before in human history has such a valuable resource been available to so many people at such little cost. You are incredibly lucky.
The main Internet applications are described in the chapters accessible through the home page, while this chapter describes the underlying Internet network itself. The following sections provide more information:
- Internet History — One-Page Summary
- Vannevar Bush and Memex
- Norbert Wiener Invents Cybernetics
- Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)
- Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference
- DARPA/ARPA — Defense / Advanced Research Project Agency
- J.C.R. Licklider And The Universal Network
- Marshall McLuhan Foresees The Global Village
- Paul Baran Invents Packet Switching
- UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) & Donald Davies
- IPTO — Information Processing Techniques Office
- Leonard Kleinrock Helps Build The ARPANET
- Lawrence Roberts Manages The ARPANET Program
- IMP — Interface Message Processor
- ARPANET — The First Internet
- NCP — Network Control Program
- Robert Kahn — TCP/IP Co-Designer
- Vinton Cerf — TCP/IP Co-Designer
- TCP/IP Internet Protocol
- CSNET — Computer Science Network
- NSFNET — National Science Foundation Network
- EUnet — European Network
- Internet Management
- ISOC — Internet Society
- IAB — Internet Architecture Board
- IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force
- IRTF — Internet Research Task Force
- ICANN — Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers
- IANA — Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- NSI — Network Solutions
- Accredited Domain Name Registrars
- NSF — National Science Foundation
- Internet Architecture
- Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Netiquette (Internet Etiquette)
- Internet Request For Comments (RFC’s)
- RFC History
- How To Use RFC’s
- Internet Protocol RFC’s
- Internet Official Protocol Standards RFC’s
- Entertaining RFC’s
- Interesting RFC’s
- RFC’s By Email
- Related RFC References
- Internet Tools & Resources
- Internet Network Topology
- WHOIS Database
- Ping Command
- Traceroute Command
- NSLOOKUP Command
- Internet Traffic Statistics
- Text On The Internet
- Internet Legends & Myths
- Internet Hackers, Crackers, Hacking
- How To Get An Internet Domain
- The Future Of The Internet