Internet History and Growth

TOPICS

• Internet History
• Internet Evolution
• Internet Pioneers
• Internet Growth
• Conclusion
 What Was the
“Victorian Internet”?
 What Was the
“Victorian Internet”
• The Telegraph
• Invented in the 1840s.
• Signals sent over wires that were
established over vast distances
• Used extensively by the U.S.
Government during the American
Civil War, 1861 - 1865
• Morse Code was dots and dashes,
or short signals and long signals
• The electronic signal standard of
+/- 15 v. is still used in network
interface cards today.
 What Is the Internet?
• A network of networks, joining many government,
university and private computers together and
providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail,
bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents,
databases and other computational resources
• The vast collection of computer networks which
form and act as a single huge network for transport
of data and messages across distances which can be
anywhere from the same office to anywhere in the
world.

Written by William F. Slater, III

1996
President of the Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society

Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA

 Brief History of the Internet
• 1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create
ARPAnet
• 1970 - First five nodes:
– UCLA
– Stanford
– UC Santa Barbara
– U of Utah, and
– BBN
• 1974 - TCP specification by Vint Cerf
• 1984 – On January 1, the Internet with its 1000 hosts
converts en masse to using TCP/IP for its messaging
 What is the Internet?

• The largest network of networks in the

world.
• Uses TCP/IP protocols and packet switching .
• Runs on any communications substrate.

From Dr. Vinton Cerf,

Co-Creator of TCP/IP
*** Internet History ***
 A Brief Summary of the
Evolution of the Internet Mosaic
Age of
eCommerce
Begins
WWW Created 1995
Internet Created 1993
Named 1989
and
Goes
TCP/IP TCP/IP
Created 1984
ARPANET 1972
1969
Hypertext
Invented
Packet 1965
Switching
First Vast Invented
Computer 1964
Network
Silicon Envisioned
A Chip 1962
Mathematical 1958
Theory of
Memex Communication
Conceived 1948
1945

1945 1995
Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
 From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow
1940s to 1969
We will prove that packet switching
works over a WAN.

Hypertext can be used to allow

rapid access to text data

Packet switching can be used to

send digitized data though
computer networks
We can accomplish a lot by having a
vast network of computers to use for
accessing information and exchanging ideas

We can do it cheaply by using

Digital circuits etched in silicon.

We do it reliably with “bits”,

sending and receiving data

We can access
information using
electronic computers

1945 1969
Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
 The Creation of the Internet

• The creation of the Internet solved the following

challenges:
– Basically inventing digital networking as we know it
– Survivability of an infrastructure to send / receive high-speed
electronic messages
– Reliability of computer messaging

Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA

 From Simple, But Significant Ideas Bigger Ones Grow
1970s to 1995

Great efficiencies can be accomplished if we use

The Internet and the World Wide Web to conduct business.

The World Wide Web is easier to use if we have a browser that

To browser web pages, running in a graphical user interface context.

Computers connected via the Internet can be used

more easily if hypertext links are enabled using HTML
and URLs: it’s called World Wide Web
The ARPANET needs to convert to
a standard protocol and be renamed to
The Internet
We need a protocol for Efficient
and Reliable transmission of
Packets over a WAN: TCP/IP

Ideas from
1940s to 1969

1970 1995
Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
 Tribute to the
Internet Pioneers
• The Internet we know and love today, would not
exist without the hard work of a lot of bright
people.
• The technologies and standards they created make
today’s Internet and World Wide Web possible.
• They deserve recognition and our gratitude for
changing the world with the Internet.
• In this presentation, we will identify and pay tribute
to several of the people who made the Internet and
the World Wide Web possible
 Internet Pioneers in this
Presentation
Vannevar Bush Claude Shannon J. C. R. Licklider

Paul Baran Ted Nelson Leonard Kleinrock

Lawrence Roberts Steve Crocker Jon Postel

Vinton Cerf Robert Kahn Christian Huitema

Brian Carpenter Tim Berners-Lee Mark Andreesen

 Vannevar Bush
• Summary: Vannevar Bush established
the U.S. military / university research
partnership that later developed the
ARPANET. He also wrote the first
visionary description of the potential
use for information technology, inspiring
many of the Internet's creators.

• From 1946 to 1947, Bush served as

chairman of the Joint Research and
Development Board. Out of this effort
would later come DARPA, which would
later do the ARPANET Project.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Claude Shannon
• The Father of Modern Information
Theory
• Created the idea that all information
could be represented using 1s and 0s.
Called these fundamental units BITS.
• Created the concept data transmission in
BITS per second.
• Won a Nobel prize for his master’s thesis
in 1936, titled, “A Symbolic Analysis of
Relay and Switching Circuits”, it provided
mathematical techniques for building a
network of switches and relays to realize
a specific logical function, such as a
combination lock.

Source: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/ces5.html
 J. C. R. Licklider
• Summary: Joseph Carl Robnett "Lick"
Licklider developed the idea of a universal
network, spread his vision throughout the
IPTO, and inspired his successors to
realize his dream by creation of the
ARPANET. He also developed the
concepts that led to the idea of the
Netizen.
• Like Norbert Wiener, Licklider foresaw a
close symbiotic relationship between
computer and human, including
sophisticated computerized interfaces
with the brain.
Source: Livinginternet.com
 Paul Baran
• Paul Baran developed the field of
packet switching networks
• The network is designed to withstand
almost any degree of destruction to
individual components without loss of
end-to-end communications. Baran
also talked to Bob Taylor and J.C.R.
Licklider at the IPTO about his work,
since they were also working to build
a wide area communications network.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Ted Nelson
• His biggest project, Xanadu, was to be a world-wide electronic
publishing system that would have created a sort universal library
for the people. He is known for coining the term "hypertext."
• Xanadu was concieved as a tool to preserve and increase
humanity's literature and art. Xanadu would consist of a world-
wide network that would allow information to be stored not as
separate files but as connected literature. Documents would
remain accessible indefinitely. Users could create virtual copies
of any document. Instead of having copyrighted materials, the
owners of the documents would be automatically paid via
electronic means a micropayment for the virtual copying of their
documents.
• Xanadu has never been totally completed and is far from being
implemented. In many ways Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web is
a similar, though much less grand, system. In 1999, the Xanadu
code was made open source.
Source: www.ibiblio.org/pioneers
 Leonard Kleinrock
• Leonard Kleinrock is one of the pioneers of digital network
communications, and helped build the early ARPANET.

• On a historical day in early September, 1969, a team at

Kleinrock's NMC connected one of their SDS Sigma 7 computers
to an Interface Message Processor, thereby becoming the first
node on the ARPANET, and the first computer ever on the
Internet.
• As the ARPANET grew in the early 1970's, Kleinrock's group
stressed the system to work out the detailed design and
performance issues involved with the world's first packet
switched network, including routing, loading, deadlocks, and
latency. The UCLA Netwatch program now performs similar
functions to Kleinrock's Network Management Center from the
ARPANET years.

Source: Dr. Kleinrock’s Homepage

 Lawrence Roberts
• Lawrence Roberts was the ARPANET
program manager, and led the overall
system design.
• November, 1964, Roberts met with
J.C.R. Licklider, who inspired Roberts
with his dream to build a wide area
communications network.
• Roberts also hired the developer of
TCP/IP, Bob Kahn, who had worked
on the Interface Message Processor
at BBN.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Steve Crocker
• DR. STEPHEN D. CROCKER CEO, Steve Crocker Associates,
• Steve Crocker is an Internet and computer security expert.
• In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Dr. Crocker was part
of the team which developed the protocols for the
Arpanet and laid the foundation for today’s Internet. In
addition to his technical work on the early protocols, he
organized the Network Working Group, which was the
forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force,
and he initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of
notes through which protocol designs are documented and
shared. And wrote many of the first RFCs, including RFC 1
and 3.

Source: www.epf.net
 Jon Postel
•At UCLA he was involved in the beginnings of the
ARPANET and the development of the Network
Measurement Center.
•He has worked in the areas of computer communication
protocols, especially at the operating system level and
the application level. .
•Jon was regarded by many to be the ‘policeman of
Internet Standards” for many years during the infancy of
the Internet.
•Jon was honored by Dr. Vint Cerf in October 1998,
shortly after his passing with the addition of RFC 2468.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Vinton Cerf
• Vinton Cerf is co-designer of the TCP/IP networking protocol.
• In 1972, Vinton Cerf was a DARPA scientist at Stanford
University when he was appointed chairman of the
InterNetworking Working Group (INWG).
• Cerf worked on several interesting networking projects at
DARPA, including the Packet Radio Net (PRNET), and the
Packet Satellite Network (SATNET). In the spring of 1973, he
joined Bob Kahn as Principal Investigator on a project to
design the next generation networking protocol for the
ARPANET. Kahn had experience with the Interface Message
Processor, and Cerf had experience with the Network Control
Protocol, making them the perfect team to create what
became TCP/IP.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Robert Kahn
Bob Kahn is co-designer of the TCP/IP networking protocol.
•In 1972, Kahn was hired by Lawrence Roberts at the IPTO to work on networking
technologies, and in October he gave a demonstration of an ARPANET network connecting
40 different computers at the International Computer Communication Conference, making
the network widely known for the first time to people from around the world.
•Kahn then began work on development of a standard open-architecture network model,
where any computer could communicate with any other, independent of individual hardware
and software configuration. He set four goals for the TCP design:
•Network Connectivity. Any network could connect to another network through a gateway.
•Distribution. There would be no central network administration or control.
•Error Recovery. Lost packets would be retransmitted.
•Black Box Design. No internal changes would have to be made to a computer to connect it
to the network.
•TCP had powerful error and retransmission capabilities, and provided extremely reliable
communications. It was subsequently layered into two protocols, TCP/IP, where TCP
handles high level services like retransmission of lost packets, and IP handles packet
addressing and transmission.

Source: Livinginternet.com
 Tim Berners-Lee
• The inventor of HTML. He directs the W3 Consortium,
an open forum of companies and organizations with the
mission to realize the full potential of the Web.
• With a background of system design in real-time
communications and text processing software
development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web,
an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing. while working at CERN, the
European Particle Physics Laboratory.
•

Source: w3c.org
 Christian Huitema
• Christian Huitema joined Microsoft in February 2000, as
"architect" in the "Windows Networking & Communications"
group. The group is in charge of all the networking support for
Windows, including the evolution of TCP/IP support, IPv6, Real-
Time Communication, and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). Prior
to joining Microsoft, he was chief scientist, and Telcordia Fellow,
in the Internet Architecture Research laboratory of Telcordia,
working on Internet Quality of Service and Internet Telephony.
The work on Internet Telephony led to the development of the
"Call Agent Architecture" that enables very large scale
configuration, moving Internet telephony into the main stream of
telecommunications. His personal work on quality of service
focused on measurement of the Internet's size and quality.

Source: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/518
 Mark Andreesen
• In early 1993, Mosaic was posted for download on NCSA's servers. It was
immediately popular. Within weeks tens of thousands of people had
downloaded the software. The original version was for Unix. Andreesen
and Bina quickly put together a team to develop PC and Mac versions,
which were released in the late spring of the same year. With Mosaic now
available for more popular platforms, its popularity skyrocketed. More
users meant a bigger Web audience. The bigger audiences spurred the
creation of new content, which in turn further increased the audience on
the Web and so on. As the number of users on the Web increased, the
browser of choice was Mosaic so its distribution increased accordingly.
• By December 1993, Mosaic's growth was so great that it made the front
page of the New York Times business section. The article concluded that
Mosaic was perhaps "an application program so different and so obviously
useful that it can create a new industry from scratch" (Reid, 17). NCSA
administrators were quoted in the article, but there was no mention of
either Andreesen or Bina. Marc realized that when he was through with his
studies NCSA would take over Mosaic for themselves. So when he
graduated in December 1993, he left and moved to Silicon Valley in
California.

Source: www.ibiblio.org/pioneers
 Mark Andreesen
•In 1992, Andreesen recruited fellow NCSA employee, Eric
Bina, to help with his project. The two worked tirelessly.
Bina remembers that they would 'work three to four days
straight, then crash for about a day' (Reid, 7). They called
their new browser Mosaic. It was much more sophisticated
graphically than other browsers of the time. Like other
browsers it was designed to display HTML documents, but
new formatting tags like "center" were included.
•"image" tag which allowed to include images on web
pages. Earlier browsers allowed the viewing of pictures,
but only as separate files. Mosaic made it possible for
images and text to appear on the same page.

Source: www.ibiblio.org/pioneers
 Honorable Mention
• Jack Kilby
– Co-inventor of the silicon
microchip
• Robert Noyce
– Co-inventor of the silicon
microchip
• Robert Metcalfe
Jack Kilby Robert Noyce – ARPANET engineer and
inventor of Ethernet, and
founder of 3Com
• Esther Dyson
– Visionary who helped start
the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and who was the
first Chairman of ICANN at its
beginning in October 1998.
Esther Dyson Bob Metcalfe

Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA

 Internet Growth Trends
• 1977: 111 hosts on Internet
• 1981: 213 hosts
• 1983: 562 hosts
• 1984: 1,000 hosts
• 1986: 5,000 hosts
• 1987: 10,000 hosts
• 1989: 100,000 hosts
• 1992: 1,000,000 hosts
• 2001: 150 – 175 million hosts
• 2002: over 200 million hosts
• By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the Internet
 March 2001
Over 115 Million Hosts
(As of Jan. 2001)

Over 407 Million Users

(As of Nov. 2000)

218 of 246 Countries

(As of Jan. 2000)

> 31 Million Domain Names

About 100 TB of Data

Dr. Vint Cerf presents in Chicago
at the Drake Hotel on March 2001
The event was a fund-raiser for the ITRC

Digital Photo March 2001 by William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
 By September 2002
The Internet Reached Two
Important Milestones:

Netsizer.com – from Telcordia

 Growth of Internet Hosts *
Sept. 1969 - Sept. 2002

250,000,000

Sept. 1, 2002
200,000,000
No. of Hosts

150,000,000

100,000,000
Dot-Com Bust Begins

50,000,000

Time Period
Chart by William F. Slater, III
The Internet was not known as "The Internet" until January 1984, at which time
there were 1000 hosts that were all converted over to using TCP/IP.
Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA
 Statistics from the IITF Report
The Emerging Digital Economy *
• To get a market of 50 Million People Participating:
• Radio took 38 years
• TV took 13 years
• Once it was open to the General Public, The Internet made
to the 50 million person audience mark in just 4 years!!!

• http://www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm
– Released on April 15, 1998

* Delivered to the President and the U.S. Public on April 15, 1998 by Bill Daley,
Secretary of Commerce and Chairman of the Information Infrastructure Task Force
 The Internet Host Count
in Realtime on September 1, 2002 -
Over 204,000,000 IP Hosts!!!

Chart showing Internet Growth

from Sept. 1, 2001 to Sept. 1, 2002.
Source Netsizer.com
Domain Name Registration
Jan. ‘89 - Jul. ‘97

April 2001: 31,000,000 Domain Names!!!

Sources of Statistical Information

• Netsizer.com – from Telcordia

• CAIDA
• Network Wizards Internet Domain Survey
• RIPE Internet Statistics
• Matrix Information and Directory Services
• Growth of the World Wide Web
• The Netcraft Web Server Survey
• Internet Surveys
• The Internet Society
 Conclusion

• The Internet (and World Wide Web) was have today

was created by some very bright, talented people who
either had vision, or were inspired by other talented
people’s visions.
• Though their ideas were not always popular, they
pressed ahead.
• Their perseverance and hard work brought us to
where we are today.
• There is a lot to be learned by studying these people,
their early work and keeping in mind what they had to
work with.
• Today, we owe a great deal for the wired world we
enjoy, to the hard work of these people.