ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Taschen, Vint Cerf, Darpa
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Cis*1200 chapter 3 - using the internet: making the most of the we(cid:271)"s resour(cid:272)es. The concept of the internet was developed in the late 1950s while the united states was in the midst of the cold war with the soviet union. The us department of defense (cid:374)eeded a (cid:272)o(cid:373)pute(cid:396) (cid:374)et(cid:449)o(cid:396)k that (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t dis(cid:396)upt easil(cid:455) i(cid:374) the e(cid:448)e(cid:374) of a(cid:374) atta(cid:272)k. The researchers wanted computers to communicate with each other using a common communications method. The internet was created to respond to these 2 concerns: Create a means by which all computers could communicate. The modern internet evolved from an early us government-fu(cid:374)ded (cid:862)i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)et(cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g(cid:863) project called the advanced research projects agency network (arpanet). First real communication occurred in 1969 between a computer in stanford and a computer in ucla; the system crashed after the third letter was transmitted. Vinton cerf and robert kahn are generally acknowledged as the (cid:862)fathe(cid:396)s(cid:863) of the.
