What I learned...

I learned about the history of the internet. I was unaware of the reasonings behind the interenet. The presentation helped me understand what it took for the internet to get to where it is today.

1969- ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed to support military research -
in particular to withstand partial outages and still function. Financed by the U.S.Defense Department.
1972 - ARPANET is put into operation and presented to the public. Demand for networking quickly
spreads. Universities (Stanford Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara,
University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Utah) join the network.
1981 - ARPANET and CSNET (network of the Computer Science Researchers) are connected.
Development of the new transfer protocol TCP/IP.
1984- ARPANET is split into MILNET (for public military information) and ARPANET (for non-military
research).
1985- ARPANET becomes obsolete and is eliminated. The connection between many different networks,
communicating by means of TCP/IP, is called “The Internet.”
1986- 700,000 worldwide hosts online in the Internet with numbers doubling every 7 months. Commercial
users also increasing.
1995 - Nearly 4 million hosts and over 30 million academic, commercial, national and private users take
advantage of the Internet information.