pbs documentary series
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CS101 Lecture 07:
History of the Internet
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John Magee 9 July 2013
PBS Documentary Series
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
Watch Part 1. Parts 2 and 3 are optional.
Part 1: Networking the Nerds: Part 1: Networking the Nerds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMvASPzXE-M
Part 2: Serving the Suits: Part 2: Serving the Suits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOldgIq3GXo
Part 3: Wiring the World: Part 3: Wiring the World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMvASPzXE-M
Transcript/history as text available here:
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
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Part 1: Networking the Nerds
– 00:00 - boring stuff about nerd kids -- skip it – 19:50 - space race intro -- start here – 22:00 - computers of the 1960s – 24:17 - Pentagon/ARPA – 28:21 - ARPA RFQ – 32:15 - MIT/BBN – 35:10 - packets – 39:47 - IMP, testing – ??:?? - hippies/hackers – 48:00 - AlohaNET – 50:00 - ARPA Show in Washington DC – 53:20 -TCP/IP – 55:13 – email
Watching Part 1 – 19:50 to end
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Part 1 Discussion
“Killer app” for the net?
– Computer: A machine for computing to a machine for communication.
– What has that evolved to now?
Social networking, Facebook, etc.
What’s next?
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Part 2: Serving the Suits (Optional)
– 00:00 – Intro – 03:10 - Bob Metcalfe – 05:15 - Xerox PARC – 08:05 - Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, personal computers, 3com – 10:15 - Ethernet/Sun Workstation – 11:35 - Stanford (Cisco, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems) – 20:10 - Novell – 27:10 - Microsoft – 35:00 - The WELL – 38:00 - McAfee – 45:45 - Len Bosak @ Stanford – 48:30 - Stanford/bridges/routers – 49:30 - Cisco born – 51:45 - VCs, Don Valentine – 57:06 - Sandy/Urban Decay, Len/SETI
Watch 2:50 – 8:00 for history of Ethernet 3 aspects of information technology: PCs, Software, and Networking
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Ethernet Bob Metcalf’s napkin sketch:
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Part 3: Wiring the World (Optional)
– 00:00 – Intro – 05:40 - Tim Berners-Lee – 08:00 - Ted Nelson – 10:25 - World Wide Web Consortium – 11:55 - Commerce on the Net - legislation – 13:10 - Marc Andreesen , Mosaic, Netscape – ???? – “current” web circa 1999 – Pre dot.com bubble bust – 32:00 – Amazon.com – 35:00 – India, World economy – 40:30 – Java – 45:30 – Microsoft finally responds – 56:00 – Nobody owns the internet, wrap up
“The ubiquity of the internet is more important than the technology of the internet”
– Jeff Bezos, found over Amazon.com “The killer app for the internet is tele-presence: it’s using the net to be places that
you don’t have to go to” -Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and 3Com founder.
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Before the Internet Was Personal
Until the web became popular, the internet was mostly a tool for universities, government, etc.
Personal communication was on: – Bulletin Board Systems
(BBS)
– Online Services – CompuServe, Delphi, Genie, Prodigy, MSN, AOL
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Growth of the Internet
1981: 200 hosts
1985: 2000 hosts
1987: 10,000
1989: 80,000 in January,
130,000 in July to over 160,000 in November!
1990: 300,000 hosts
1991: 600,000 hosts
2012: 900 Million! http://www.isc.org/solutions/survey
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Take-Away Points
– DoD, BBN, ARPAnet, AlohaNet
– packet switching, routers
– Protocols, TCP/IP
– What if Microsoft or AOL cornered (“owned”) the internet?
– Be aware of the characters and organizations involved in creating the Internet!
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Student ToDo’s HW02 Alice due Tomorrow @ Class
– Finish Lab02
– 1.9 or 1.10 (Your own story or movie scene)
HW03 due Monday
Quiz 1 on Thursday
– 5 questions, 25 minutes
– All material through Today
Wednesday: Meet at CS Lab!
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