MetaFilter posts tagged with ARPAnet

'Lo world

starman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:26:48 -0800

Forty years ago today, Leonard Kleinrock and a team of engineers at UCLA connected to Stanford Research Institute and typed (an incomplete) message between the first two nodes of the Internet: "lo." Kleinrock tells the story. The first router. On packet switching. (All YouTube) Kleinrock interviewed by CNN, LA Times. Sign outside the historic room at UCLA. History of the Internet.

RFC 1

loquacious — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:59:58 -0800

Happy 40th birthday, RFC 1!

History of the Internet: 1957-2009

Surfin' Bird — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:07:32 -0800

History of the Internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

VF: How the Web Was Won

spiderwire — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:02:34 -0800

Vanity Fair has a typically excellent article out -- "How the Web Was Won," an oral history of the Web. Even if you're familiar with ARPANet, Metcalfe's Law, Pearl Harbor Day, the VC rush, whatever -- the story told by the often-animated people at the center of the whirlwind is an enlightening and entertaining experience. And for those of you don't know the history of the Internet, learn it! This is part of your heritage now. I just like this quote because it sums up my experience with all hackers-as-CEOs:

Jeff Bezos: When we started out, we were packing on our hands and knees on these cement floors. One of the software engineers that I was packing next to was saying, You know, this is really killing my knees and my back. And I said to this person, I just had a great idea. We should get kneepads. And he looked at me like I was from Mars. And he said, Jeff, we should get packing tables. We got packing tables the next day, and it doubled our productivity.

The geek old days, when domain names were free and IPv4 ruled the land

ardgedee — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:27:48 -0800

Remember NSFNet? If you had an email account in the U.S. before 1995, chances are most of your mail passed through an NSFNet node. The folks who ran it are having a reunion. Starting in 1986, NSFNET ran the interconnection between research, industry, education and government. It started by joining supercomputers and regional networks across the country through a data backbone running at a whopping 56 kilobits per second (then 25 times faster than anybody else), later increasing speed and quantity of data as demand increased but still directing ever-escalating traffic through a limited set of access points. On April 30, 1995, The NSFNET backbone was changed to a new architecture of private networks joined through peering points, marking the end of an era. More history from the National Science Foundation and Wikipedia.

ARPAnet

loquacious — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:23:36 -0800

Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing (Google video) A fascinating 30 minute documentary about ARPAnet - the precursor to today's Internet. (Can you spot the real ubernerd mover and shaker at BBN? Hint: He wears no tie!) (via: all over the place)

Happy 20th Anniversary, Internet!

tenseone — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 01:43:41 -0800

Happy 20th Anniversary, Internet!

We ought not to let pass unnoticed the... 20th anniversary of the Internet. The most logical date of origin of the Internet is January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP.

Where were you two decades ago on this date? And does anyone actually have a "I Survived the TCP/IP Transition" t-shirt?

Also being discussed on /.

eyesandfists — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:24:21 -0800

I wondered who invented the Internet. Some people would say Al Gore, but even after reading parts of the history of the Internet (first link), I can't figure it out. I think the "USSR" prompted us to do it when they launched Sputnik. Is this really the case?