https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2023-04/25y.html
Geoff Huston’s overview of the last 25 years of the Internet:
"The Internet not quite as young and spritely as you might’ve thought. Apple’s
iPhone, released in 2007, is now 16 years old, and YouTube is an ageing
teenager at 18, after its initial release in 2005, and these two examples are
relatively recent additions to the Internet. The first web browser, Mosaic, was
released some thirty years ago in 1993. Going back further, the Internet
emerged from its early ARPA roots in the form of the NSFNET in 1986. At the
start of 1983 the ARPANET had a flag day and switched over to use TCP as its
end-to-end transport protocol. Going back further, in 1974 Vint Cerf and Bob
Kahn published the first academic paper describing the both the protocol and
the underlying architectural framework of a packet switched network that became
the Internet. This achievement was built upon earlier foundations, where there
were a number of efforts in the late 1960’s that showed the viability of a
packet switched approach to computer networking. These packet-switched
networking efforts included a program lead by Donald Davies at the UK National
Physics Laboratory, an effort in the US in the form of an ARPA project lead by
Larry Roberts, and Louis Pouzin’s work in France with the CYCLADES network.
This, in turn has some of its antecedents in work by Paul Baran at the RAND
Corporation on distributed communications and packet switched networks,
published between 1960 and 1964. Far from being an immature upstart, the
Internet has managed to accumulate a relatively lengthy pedigree.
And it’s been a wild ride. The Internet has undergone a number of cycles of
economic boom and bust, each of which are right up there with history's finest
episodes of exuberant irrational mania following by sobering correction. It’s
managed to trigger a comprehensive restructuring of the entire global
communications enterprise and generated a set of changes that have already
altered the way in which each of us now work and play. That's quite a set of
achievements in just twenty-five years!"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
