History of the Internet

9mmCensor · Apr 3, 2005

"A 10-minute history of the Internet: Al Gore - Present"
Steffan McMurrin - 4/3/05

This article will explain how the Internet was not created by one person, but through several organizations and key innovations that allowed for a broad network of computers known as the World Wide Web that we have today.

The internet is not synonymous with the world wide web.
The WWW is a part of the Internet, but is not all that is the internet.

fUzZ bUnNy · Apr 3, 2005

I liked this article, it was good to read about the history of the internet and a nice overview of the how it developed along with how the technology behind it developed from 50 kbps lines to 45 Mbps T3.

I also found it interesting that the original providers and science foundations and local and national host and route much of the traffic.

I found a couple of mistakes, nothing major, but this was just while reading. First, 56kbps is 56 kilo bits per second not Bytes and 1024 GB = 1 TB, instead of the stated 100 GB = 1 TB

I really liked this article, it was something better than I have ever done! Now, I am feeling bad that I never have submitted an article, its time will come

Kevin007 · Apr 3, 2005

I liked that overview of the internet, it was very interesting.

L337 M33P · Apr 3, 2005

Basically, a server is a computer filled with lots of very fast hard drives. The capacity of these servers has increased exponentially as the Internet has grown bigger from gigabytes to terabytes (a terabyte is 100 gigabytes)

My computer's filled to the eyeballs with fast hard drives, yet it is not a dedicated server. It needs more than just space. And I think a little proofreading is necessary

9mmCensor · Apr 3, 2005

Kevin007: Your signature is too big. The text cant be that big.

enduro · Apr 3, 2005

lol speaking of sigs what's the story behind yours?

Very good article. I love reading about stuff like this.

XWRed1 · Apr 3, 2005

I think there were alot of minor mistakes in the article.

It's a pretty big subject, there's alot of stuff to screw up. The thing that keeps popping in my head as annoying is the business of T3s being some innovation and the implication the Internet is still backboned on them.

Saying the internet needs to be reworked to stop viruses is a dangerous idea too, imho.

The bit about DNS was funny too, it looked to me like the author was saying ip addresses came about with dns? And that packets are sent to domain names? Both of those are wrong.

I guess the *gist* is right, it starting out w/ government and being opened for normal people. But its all about the details, and alot of them are wrong.

It might be educational to follow the history links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#History

TollhouseFrank · Apr 4, 2005

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probably someone opposed to 9mm's gun in his avatar

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hmm... internet doesn't need a rework as much as a ... reboot.... sort of like... shut it all off for about a week.. let each node come up one at a time, after optimizing and reconfiguring all security flaws... and voila.... it'd be faster and safer...

but maybe i'm crazy

firebat45 · Apr 4, 2005

i noticed the "a terabyte is 100 gigabytes" right away, lol There were a lot of errors, and some people would say "the normal person wouldn't notice or care" but this is overclockers.com, the people here aren't normal when it comes to computers. On another note, my "2TB" harddrive holds alot more than i thought it would, probably around ten times

XWRed1 · Apr 4, 2005

hmm... internet doesn't need a rework as much as a ... reboot.... sort of like... shut it all off for about a week.. let each node come up one at a time, after optimizing and reconfiguring all security flaws

I think its a bad idea to try and rework core internet infrastructure to address security problems which all exist on the machines at the edges. Any company demanding such changes always seems to get the secondary benefit of making tons of money off proprietary gear they are offering to design.

TollhouseFrank · Apr 4, 2005

XWRed1 said:
I think its a bad idea to try and rework core internet infrastructure to address security problems which all exist on the machines at the edges. Any company demanding such changes always seems to get the secondary benefit of making tons of money off proprietary gear they are offering to design.

example: perfect world

we can take down a node on the internet without interruption. we can optimize the connections/servers/whatever.... clean it up a bit... take out the security flaws
methinks it would be nice....

but we don't live in a perfect world...

so switch to gieco

tehnull · Apr 4, 2005

Basically, a server is a computer filled with lots of very fast hard drives. The capacity of these servers has increased exponentially as the Internet has grown bigger from gigabytes to terabytes (a terabyte is 100 gigabytes). All the information on the Internet is stored in these servers, and it takes time for this information to be sorted out.

As everyone knows a terabyte us 1024 gigabytes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte

Stoanhart · Apr 4, 2005

TollhouseFrank said:
[threadjack]

probably someone opposed to 9mm's gun in his avatar

[/threadjack]

hmm... internet doesn't need a rework as much as a ... reboot.... sort of like... shut it all off for about a week.. let each node come up one at a time, after optimizing and reconfiguring all security flaws... and voila.... it'd be faster and safer...

but maybe i'm crazy

Internet off...over my dead body

I like 9mm's kid with gun avatar. I think it rocks.

hibner · Apr 7, 2005

Man this was a good article. I just caught it this morning. I was about to start a new thread about it until I found this one. Someone obviously did their homework. :thup:

geek2005 · May 16, 2005

how about destroying the internet and start from scratch again...

I do like cleaning..

BTW, wouldn't it be nice to have all sites need endings that correspond with things? Such as .gov, .edu, .com, .porn

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