RFC 2235 (rfc2235) - Page 3 of 22
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
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RFC 2235 Hobbes' Internet Timeline November 1997 1970 ALOHAnet developed by Norman Abrahamson, Univ of Hawaii (:sk2:) - connected to the ARPANET in 1972 ARPANET hosts start using Network Control Protocol (NCP). 1971 15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email program to send messages across a distributed network. The original program was derived from two others: an intra-machine email program (SNDMSG) and an experimental file transfer program (CPYNET) (:amk:irh:) 1972 International Conference on Computer Communications with demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines and the Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) organized by Bob Kahn. InterNetworking Working Group (INWG) created to address need for establishing agreed upon protocols. Chairman: Vinton Cerf. Telnet specification (RFC 318) 1973 First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) Bob Metcalfe's Harvard PhD Thesis outlines idea for Ethernet (:amk:) Bob Kahn poses Internet problem, starts internetting research program at ARPA. Vinton Cerf sketches gateway architecture in March on back of envelope in hotel lobby in San Francisco (:vgc:) Cerf and Kahn present basic Internet ideas at INWG in September at Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK (:vgc:) File Transfer specification (RFC 454) 1974 Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" which specified in detail the design of a Transmission Control Program (TCP). [IEEE Trans Comm] (:amk:) BBN opens Telenet, the first public packet data service (a commercial version of ARPANET) (:sk2:) Zakon Informational
