Origins of the Internet

[jabbr]

Origins of the Internet are an interesting topic. 

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was a critical funder dating back to the 1960's. A number of distinct networks were created and then merged/linked together into the "Inter"net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

 

My understanding is that one of the initial aims of arpanet was to develop a secure messaging system that would survive a (nuclear) attack by routing around nodes that became nonfunctional. ARPA funded development research which was then taken "behind the curtain" where presumably DoD/NSA etc developed a distinct production version for the military. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) makes heavy use of the acquisition, storage and transmission of multimedia including digital images and audio recordings.

 

My understanding of Gore's involvement was for legislation funding the NSF to expand civilian/university use. This ultimately led to more and more campus wide networks to be linked together into what ultimately became the Internet as we know it. No doubt an early proponent of civilian use.

 

If I had to point to one person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

 

[Richard Dale]

11 minutes ago, jabbr said:

Origins of the Internet are an interesting topic. 

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was a critical funder dating back to the 1960's. A number of distinct networks were created and then merged/linked together into the "Inter"net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

 

My understanding is that one of the initial aims of arpanet was to develop a secure messaging system that would survive a (nuclear) attack by routing around nodes that became nonfunctional. ARPA funded development research which was then taken "behind the curtain" where presumably DoD/NSA etc developed a distinct production version for the military. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) makes heavy use of the acquisition, storage and transmission of multimedia including digital images and audio recordings.

 

My understanding of Gore's involvement was for legislation funding the NSF to expand civilian/university use. This ultimately led to more and more campus wide networks to be linked together into what ultimately became the Internet as we know it. No doubt an early proponent of civilian use.

 

If I had to point to one person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

 

A great book about the origins of the internet is Where Wizards Stay Up Late

[Ralf11]

most use "internet" when they mean html 'stuff'

 

FTP & Gopher were great advances when compared to getting discs in boxes from the USPS, tho early on it paid to be at a place with a good physics dept. to get "internet"

[lucretius]

10 hours ago, jabbr said:

Origins of the Internet are an interesting topic. 

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was a critical funder dating back to the 1960's. A number of distinct networks were created and then merged/linked together into the "Inter"net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

 

My understanding is that one of the initial aims of arpanet was to develop a secure messaging system that would survive a (nuclear) attack by routing around nodes that became nonfunctional. ARPA funded development research which was then taken "behind the curtain" where presumably DoD/NSA etc developed a distinct production version for the military. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) makes heavy use of the acquisition, storage and transmission of multimedia including digital images and audio recordings.

 

My understanding of Gore's involvement was for legislation funding the NSF to expand civilian/university use. This ultimately led to more and more campus wide networks to be linked together into what ultimately became the Internet as we know it. No doubt an early proponent of civilian use.

 

If I had to point to one person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

 

 

Key word is "expand".  Before the Gore bill, many universities already had access to the internet. I even had access via FTP (through the back door of a BBS system) before Mosaic came along.

[John G]

[Ralf11]

funny, but I'd rather hook up parrots or dolphins to the internet...

 

BTW, my understanding is that the first university researchers were those at universities with major defense funding and were PIs on those projects

[lucretius]

1 hour ago, Ralf11 said:

funny, but I'd rather hook up parrots or dolphins to the internet...

 

BTW, my understanding is that the first university researchers were those at universities with major defense funding and were PIs on those projects

 

Check the authoritative source:

Hobbes' Internet Timeline https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

[NOMBEDES]

And look what it has become.  A fetid swamp, not even human in most cases, where wacko-birds have the same weight as Harvard Dons.

 

Brexit?  A Russian plot. Democratic process? Compromised.  Alex Jones?  Would have been burned at the stake only a few hundred years ago.  What hath God wrought?

 

The only thing it is good for is to look up the age of actors you see on the telly.

[jabbr]

26 minutes ago, NOMBEDES said:

The only thing it is good for is to look up the age of actors you see on the telly.

 

The Internet is like language — you can communicate both good and bad. 

 

Fetid swamp? Jump out!

[AudioDoctor]

Expected to see Al Gore mentioned, was not disappointed.

[beancounter]

On ‎9‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 6:29 AM, lucretius said:

 

Key word is "expand".  Before the Gore bill, many universities already had access to the internet. I even had access via FTP (through the back door of a BBS system) before Mosaic came along.

 

I was just a kid at a summer "camp" program at a university, but I was on the internet before AlGore was even in Congress.

 

[nekoaoyama]

Ham radios and BBS, if we only knew back then....

[davide256]

AOL's "internet on training wheels" dial up solution is a large part of what made the US Internet take off in the late 90's.  And then we all got smart, abandoned the training wheels after 2000.

[FredericV]

It started with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor

[Ralf11]

or maybe it started with the SAGE Air Defense System?

 

IIRC, there are still some buildings or shells thereof standing...  maybe in NV?

[mav52]

From Al Gore himself

 

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