Internet - Revision history

Jnc: /* External links */ +TCP-IP-Digest

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‎External links: +TCP-IP-Digest

Jnc: /* External links */ +An Ars Technica history of the Internet

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‎External links: +An Ars Technica history of the Internet

Jnc: /* External links */ +40 maps that explain the Internet

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‎External links: +40 maps that explain the Internet

Jnc: Add a brief history of the creation

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Add a brief history of the creation

Jnc: /* Further reading */ Add several key meditations on the architecture

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‎Further reading: Add several key meditations on the architecture

Jnc: /* External links */ Better URL

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‎External links: Better URL

Jnc: /* External links */ +Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]

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‎External links: +Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]

Jnc: /* External links */ +Born in a Van

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‎External links: +Born in a Van

Jnc: /* External links */ +INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account

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‎External links: +INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account

Jnc: /* External links */ +A Brief History of the Internet

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‎External links: +A Brief History of the Internet

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 ==External links==
 * [https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1958 Architectural Principles of the Internet] (RFC-1958)
-* [https://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html Will The Real "End-End Principle" Please Stand Up?]
+*  [https://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html Will The Real "End-End Principle" Please Stand Up?]
 * [http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/inwg-and-the-conception-of-the-internet-an-eyewitness-account.html INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account]
 * [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net]

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 * [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net]
 * [https://www.vox.com/a/internet-maps 40 maps that explain the Internet]
 * [https://computerhistory.org/blog/born-in-a-van-happy-40th-birthday-to-the-internet/ Born in a Van: Happy 40th Birthday to the Internet!] - spells 'Internet' incorrectly, but otherwise pretty good
 [[Category: Internet]]

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 * [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net]
 * [https://computerhistory.org/blog/born-in-a-van-happy-40th-birthday-to-the-internet/ Born in a Van: Happy 40th Birthday to the Internet!] - spells 'Internet' incorrectly, but otherwise pretty good
 [[Category: Internet]]

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-The '''Internet''' (note the capital 'I'; just as there are many 'white houses', but only one 'White House', there are many 'internets', but only one 'Internet' - and like the example, 'internet' and 'Internet' have ''different meanings'', so changing the capitalization ''changes the meaning'') is an [[internetwork|internet]] (the short form of the term [[internetwork]]) which is the world's dominant information network.
+The '''Internet''' (note the capital 'I'; just as there are many 'white houses', but only one 'White House', there are many 'internets', but only one 'Internet' - and like the above example, 'internet' and 'Internet' have ''different meanings'', so changing the capitalization ''changes the meaning'') is an internet (the short form of the term [[internetwork]]) which is the world's dominant information [[data network|network]].
 It uses the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] for communication.
-It is to some degree a direct descendant of the ground-breaking [[ARPANET]], but only in the sense that its early dominant [[application protocol]]s ([[TELNET]], [[FTP]], and [[email]]) were direct clones of those of the ARPANET; that the technical community which created it was an overlap/descendant of the one which produced the ARPANET; and that the document series which describes the [[protocol]]s (the [[Request for Comments]] series) is a continuous whole. (See the TCP/IP article for more on TCP/IP's antecedents.)
+What later became today's Internet was started (in the late 1970's) as an experiment in having computers communicate across an internet of multiple disparate [[physical network]]s; [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|DARPA]] back then didn't really fund operational systems, just research that would produce things likely to be of interest to the military. A big step was in January, 1986, when the DoD mandated that the [[ARPANET]] (at that point, the dominant [[wide area network]] among US academic institutions) convert from the [[Network Control Protocol|NCP]] protocol suite to TCP/IP. After several years of that (in 1990 or so), as [[local area network|LANs]] started to appear in organizations of all types (educational, research, business, etc), people decided it would be good to hook them all together so they could interact using the network; this led to the next stage of the nascent Internet. After that, [[social media]] companies got started, and that led to basically everyone starting to use it.
 ==Further reading==
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 * [https://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html Will The Real "End-End Principle" Please Stand Up?]
 * [http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/inwg-and-the-conception-of-the-internet-an-eyewitness-account.html INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190109070004/http://packet.cc/history-files/Brief-History.html A Brief History of the Internet]
+* [https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ <!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20190109070004/http://packet.cc/history-files/Brief-History.html --> A Brief History of the Internet]
 * [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net]

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 It is to some degree a direct descendant of the ground-breaking [[ARPANET]], but only in the sense that its early dominant [[application protocol]]s ([[TELNET]], [[FTP]], and [[email]]) were direct clones of those of the ARPANET; that the technical community which created it was an overlap/descendant of the one which produced the ARPANET; and that the document series which describes the [[protocol]]s (the [[Request for Comments]] series) is a continuous whole. (See the TCP/IP article for more on TCP/IP's antecedents.)
 ==External links==
 * [http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/inwg-and-the-conception-of-the-internet-an-eyewitness-account.html INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account]
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20190109070004/http://packet.cc/history-files/Brief-History.html A Brief History of the Internet]

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	* [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe		* [http://www.ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf The “hidden” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
		+	* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190109070004/http://packet.cc/history-files/Brief-History.html A Brief History of the Internet]

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