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The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
- teeja 17y agoBest of class - concise, thorough. Thanks!
- gritzko 17y ago...ARPANET was an incremental step from late telegraph systems <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_55-A">Plan 55</a> to the early Internet. Given the size of a typical telegram, transition from message to packet switching was more like a buzzword change. And ARPANET didn't have the end-to-end principle initially, thus functioning very much like late telegraph.
- vicaya 17y agoHmm... where is the first web search engine? Google definitely didn't invent web search :)
- wgj 17y agoThey gave Gopher credit for being first in content search, although it was admittedly not exactly "web" search.
- dragonquest 17y agoAFAIK, Aliweb was the first search engine for the WWW and WebCrawler was the first full text search (in its original incarnation, now its only a metasearch).
- the_real_r2d2 17y agoGoogle was important but I agree that the first search engine should have been there. IPv6 was also missed there, still not fully operational but it has been there for a while. Internet worms (i.e. Code Red) were also important, they raised some alarms related to security practices in OSs and applications.
- joezydeco 17y agoWhat about the Yanoff List? The web-based directory was a big deal in the pre-search-engine days. Yanoff eventually begat others like The Yahoo! List and etc etc. Now get off my lawn.