{"id":111480,"date":"2019-11-23T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:35:00","slug":"the-internet-is-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/the-internet-is-50\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In 1969 Apollo 11 took man to the moon<\/a>, Woodstock<\/a> rocked, Sesame Street debuted, Wendy’s was founded<\/a> and the Internet was born<\/strong> and crashed. On October 29, 1969, at 10:30 pm Pacific Time. The first use<\/a> of the proto-Internet was attempted by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline<\/a>. He was trying to log in to a system at Stanford.<\/p>\n

\"proto-Intenet<\/a>Only 2 characters were sent before the entire fledgling Internet crashed<\/strong>. About an hour later, after debugging a code translation problem caused<\/a> by the UCLA computer using EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) and the SRI computer using ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the first actual remote connection between two computers was established over what would someday evolve into the modern Internet.<\/p>\n

ARPANET<\/h3>\n

The proto-Intenet<\/strong> was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (the predecessor of DARPA<\/a>). It is commonly believed that ARPANET<\/strong><\/a> was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack. However, Charles Herzfeld<\/a>, the ARPA director who would oversee most of the initial work to build ARPANET told<\/a> ars Technica<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack\u00a0 … clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA’s mission to do this … ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers<\/a> in the country, and that many research investigators … were geographically separated from them.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Oringal<\/a>In its infancy, ARPANET had only four “nodes”<\/strong>:<\/p>\n