Brief History of the Domain Name System ( Since 1950s )

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· Jan. 7, 1958 – President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.

· Early 1958 – ARPA in created.

· Late 1950s – MIT computer researchers invented “time share.”

· 1960 – 1965 – Paul Baran working at RAND developed idea of packet switching and computerized “distributed networks” using “a rapid store and forward system” nicknamed “hot potato routing” and wrote 11 volumes of memoranda papers in an attempt to convince AT&T officials to support the network.

· 1961 – Due to lack of funds, the Air Force gave the Q-32 computer in Santa Monica, California to ARPA

· July 1961 – Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published a report analyzing the problem of data flow in networks and presenting ideas on packet switching.

· August 1962 – The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT

· 1965 – ARPA funded Tom Marill’s project to link the TX-2 computer in MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to the Q-32 in Santa Monica, California, asking Larry Roberts at MIT to oversee the project.

· 1965 – The Air Force agreed to fund Baran’s network, however the Pentagon gives the DCA the job of managing the network. Rather than see his network die at the hands of conventional communications experts, Baran declined the funding.

· 1965 – Marill developed a “set of procedures for sending information back and forth” also known as “message protocol.”

· Spring 1966 – Donald Watts Davies, working for the NPL, gave a public lecture on his independently developed idea of packet switching. (and gave packet switching its name)

· Late 1966 – Roberts conceived ARPANET

· Early 1967 – Meeting of ARPA’s principal investigators in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Roberts (the director of the IPTO) put forward the idea of a computer network. Wes Clark introduced the idea of a subnetwork: small, identical computers all interconnected – “interface message processors (IMPs).” Engelbert volunteered to the Network Information Center (NIC).

· 1967 – Roberts published paper on ARPANET.

· End of 1967 – The Association for Computing Machinery’s computer conference in Gatliburg, Tennessee. Roberts presented his first paper on ARPANET and heard of work done by Donald Davies’ team at NPL and Paul Baran at RAND.

· Early 1968 – Roberts and Baran meet, and Roberts chooses the first 4 IMP sites.

· July 1968 – Roberts and the DARPA funded community refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET as described in the Request for Proposals (RFP) on building the IMP network which was sent to 170 companies.

· Summer 1968 – Meeting of computer science graduate students in Santa Barbara, CA. This group of emerging computer scientists that later became known as the Network Working Group (NWG) began contemplation of host-to-host communications.

· December 1968 – In response to a RFP, Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) wins contract for the development of the IMPs and the IMP network.

· April 7, 1969 – Steve Crocker distributed the first Request for Comments (RFC) titled “Host Software” which discussed issues raised in the 1968 Santa Barbara and subsequent meetings.

· Spring 1969 – UCLA computer experts received BBN report 1822 – a set of specifications for connecting host computers to IMPs. UCLA computer experts, lead be Mike Wingfield began building the host-to-IMP interface.

· August 30, 1969 – BBN installed the first IMP at UCLA and within hours of its arrival the IMP and the Sigma – 7 were passing data back and forth.

· October 1, 1969 – The second IMP arrived at SRI (at Stanford University); a two node network was created.

· November 1, 1969 – The third IMP was installed at UC Santa Barbara.

· December 1, 1969 – The fourth IMP was installed at the University of Utah.

· December 1969 – NWG meeting in Salt Lake City. The NWG invented Telnet – a remote login protocol.

· End of 1969 – four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET

· 1969 – ALOHANet constructs a network using radios for transmission.



· Early 1970s – ARPA used communications satellites to create SATNet – an intercontinental network.
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[The Stealthy One]

Neat read! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Rogor]

very interesing, thanks for posting. Rep added

 

[cache]

don't see Al Gore on the list +