PBS Documentary Series Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet - PDF document

CS101 Lecture 07: History of the Internet Aaron Stevens 2 February 2009 1 PBS Documentary Series Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet – Part 1: Networking the Nerds: Part 1: Networking the Nerds: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4599819258094767185 – Part 2: Serving the Suits: Part 2: Serving the Suits: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2534997893350167670 – Part 3: Wiring the World: Part 3: Wiring the World: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8944679137956601931 – Transcript/history as text available here: http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ 2 1

Part 1: Networking the Nerds – 00:00 - boring crap about nerd kids -- skip it – 19:50 - space race intro -- start here – 22:00 - computers of the 1960s – 24:17 - Pentagon/ARPA – 28:21 - ARPA RFQ – 32:15 - MIT/BBN – 35:10 - packets – 39:47 - IMP, testing – ??:?? - hippies/hackers – 48:00 - AlohaNET – 50:00 - ARPA Show in Washington DC – 53:20 -TCP/IP – 55:13 - email 3 Part 2: Serving the Suits – 00:00 – Intro – 03:10 - Bob Metcalf – 05:15 - Xerox PARC – 08:05 - Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, personal computers, 3com – 10:15 - Ethernet/Sun Workstation – 11:35 - Stanford (Cisco, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems) – 20:10 - Novell – 27:10 - Microsoft – 35:00 - The WELL – 38:00 - McAfee – 45:45 - Len Bosak @ Stanford – 48:30 - Stanford/bridges/routers – 49:30 - Cisco born – 51:45 - VCs, Don Valentine – 57:06 - Sandy/Urban Decay, Len/SETI 4 2

Part 3: Wiring the World – 00:00 – Intro – 05:40 - Tim Berners-Lee – 08:00 - Ted Nelson – 10:25 - World Wide Web Consortium – 11:55 - Commerce on the Net - legislation – 13:10 - Marc Andreesen , Mosaic 5 Take-Away Points – DoD, BBN, ARPAnet, AlohaNet – packet switching, routers – Protocols, TCP/IP – Be aware of the characters and organizations involved in creating the Internet! 6 3

Student To Dos – Readings this week:  Reed ch 3, pp 44-50 (today)  Reed ch 3, pp. 51-53 (Wednesday) – HW03 (HTML) due Tuesday 2/3 7 4