A Little History For You

Hi Guys

I just thought I would share this with you, when we set up this arm of the business we had to try and embrace the "www" but also instill a bit of meaning to it aswell.

In order for you guys to really understand the magnitude of where we are going now in relation to 40 odd years ago I felt it necessary to publish this post. I apologise in advance as it is not exactly gripping reading but it will highlight the massive development in this industry over recent decades, and more importantly highlight the huge potential market.

For me this article really does drive home that the medium we are now making big money from really started as a test. You can bet that nobody back in the day could have really comprehended the extent of their actions on the educated marketer in todays climate.

I bet if you asked anyone of the origianl developers " so what's this going to mean to us in 40 years time" not even one of them would have had the faintest idea that 'some people in the know' would be making six figures a month.

Now, I suppose the point of this extract is to simply highlight the enormousity of the potential we are about to unleash. Who would have thought 40 years ago that you could work from home and earn more than a CEO of a major corporation?

But fortunately folks, they do! The cold hard facts speak for themselves! So get your chin up and knuckle down it's time to make some real money!



"The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA/DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960's for improved communications. The stated goal of the ARPANET project (and the reason it originally recieved military funding) was to create a network with no central broadcasting centre, a network that could survive nuclear attack. In reality, the project was academic and research oriented from the beginning, and was much more about creating a system that could survive the unreliability of the switching nodes and network links at the time. ARPANET was an incredibly important step in the creation of the internet. It ushered in the IP and TCP protocols, which later became standard all over the world. It also departed from the plans of technology companies of the day, which were quite happy to sell proprietary networking hardware and software for exorbident prices to large corperations and the military. It is unknown if the internet would exist today as the worldwide network it currently is without ARPANET.

History

ARPANET was the brainchild of Robert W. Taylor, J. Licklider, and Ivan Sutherland. It is important to note that universities at the time were already networked to some extent, but only directly by specific computers. When asked where he got the idea, Taylor mentioned that "if I was talking online with someone at S.D.C. and I wanted to talk to someone I knew at Berkeley or M.I.T. about this, I had to get up from the S.D.C. terminal, go over and log into the other terminal and get in touch with them. I said, oh, man, it's obvious what to do: If you have these three terminals, there ought to be one terminal that goes anywhere you want to go where you have interactive computing. That idea is the ARPAnet."

Though concieved and pushed heavily by these individuals, the effort required to create such a structure was massive, and required many teams of dedicated workers.

The backbone of the ARPANET originally consisted of packet-switching computers called IMPs (Interface Message Processors). They were connected by 56KB/s lines, an unheard of speed at the time. Conventional computers were then connected to these IMP nodes.

The first ARPANET computer was connected in 1969 to ARPANET's IMP node at UCLA. The next computer went online at the Stanford Research Institute(SRI) followed by UCSB and the University of Utah, all of which were supported by the United States Department of Defense.

Despite the fact that the computers were running different operating systems they were able to talk to each other across the newly formed network with equal status. In the 1970's, ARPANET was expanded to the larger colleges and universities. By March 1977 there were 111 computers on ARPANET. By 1983, the project had really shown it's public face and the military split off all of its networks from the ARPANET computers, creating MILNET. This later became the DoD defence data network.

The split allowed ARPANET to further turn to an unclassified network. By 1990 ARPANET was finally dissolved, it's resources allocated to NSFNET (the National Science Foundation Network), a parallel networking system for universities connected to and originally based on ARPANET protocols. Through this organisation, the internet was commercialised and allowed to expand exponentially.

Important Miletsones and the Eventual Demise of ARAPNET
Milestones. Some of the milestones in the early history of the ARPANET are summarized below:


* East Coast. In March, 1970, the consulting company Bolt, Beranek & Newman joined the ARPANET, becoming the first ARPANET node on the US east coast.

* Remote Access. In September, 1971, the first Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) was deployed, enabling individual computer terminals to dial directly into the ARPANET, thereby greatly increasing the ease of network connections and leading to significant growth.

* 1972. By the end of 1972 there were 24 sites on the ARPANET, including the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Board.

* 1973. By the end of 1973 there were 37 sites on the ARPANET, including a satellite link from California to Hawaii. Also in 1973, the University College of London in England and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway become the first international connections to the ARPANET.

* 1974. In June, 1974, there were 62 computers connected to the ARPANET.

* 1977. In March, 1977, there were 111 computers on the ARPANET.

* 1983. In 1983, an unclassified military only network called MILNET split off from the ARPANET, remaining connected only at a small number of gateways for exchange of electronic mail that could be easily disconnected for security reasons if required. MILNET later become part of the DoD Defense Data Network, or DDN.

* 1985. By the middle of the 80's there were ARPANET gateways to external networks across North America, Europe, and in Australia, and the Internet was global in scope. Marty Lyons has linked a map of the existing network gateways on 18 June 1985 on his Publications page under Primary Ineternet Gateways.

* 1990. The ARPANET was retired in 1990. Most university computers that were connected to it were moved to networks connected to the NSFNET, passing the torch from the old network to the new."

Works Cited

Crocker, Stephan D. "ARAPNET - First Internet." Living Internet. 26 Feb. 2006 .