[main] [misc] [graphics] [page design] [site design] [xhtml] [css] [xml] [xsl] [schema] [javascript] [php] [mysql]

HVCC Home
Blackboard HVCC
Blackboard Manual
Faculty Association

misc main
1. unix review
* 2. net history
a. net beginnings
b. net development
c. net explosion
3. services
4. technologies
5. networking


print version

Note that all external links will open up in a separate window.

This is a stripped down version of these pages for older browsers. These pages are really meant to be viewed in a standards compliant browser.

Directions for surfing with audio.

Internet History

These tutorials are about the history of the Internet and an overview of the technologies of the Internet.

This tutorial has three (3) sub-sections.

History

The Internet represents one of the most successful examples of the benefits of sustained investment and commitment to research and development of information infrastructure. Beginning with the early research in packet switching, the government, industry and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying this exciting new technology. Today, terms like "bleiner@computer.org" and "http://www.acm.org" trip lightly off the tongue of the random person on the street.
[A Brief History of the Internet, version 3.31]. Leiner et al. The Internet Society.
[http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html]

synergy: a process of working together, such that the whole is greater, or at least different, than the sum of its parts

The Internet has transformed and revolutionized the communications world like nothing before it. Although previous technologies allowed the transmission of information between locations, the Internet took the best features of the diversity of communications technologies out there and combined them into a unique and synergistic whole. It can not only broadcast and disseminate information world-wide, but it can allow people working together at a distance to collaborate and interact in real time.

With the advent of the personal computer a new opportunity for the Internet to function as a information resource was created. Individuals and corporations began to take an interest in the Internet as a recreational and commercial tool. The World Wide Web is the result of the fusion of the Internet with the personal computer and related new software and communications technologies.

These tutorials provide a brief history of the Internet from its gleam in the engineer's eye to its full-fledged status as the technology of the day.

See the [History and Commentary] section of my links pages for more detailed histories and further resources.

[top]

These pages can be found at: [http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/]
Copyright 2003 -- Peter L. Kantor[]
Last Updated August 2003