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History
* Simon
* large topic
* to save time: only Internet (de facto the modern IT)
* development of concepts needed for today’s products and companies
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ARPAnet
* ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
* goal: optimize efficiency by sharing computers
* (Mainframes only used by 1 person simultaneously)
* 1969: First use; end of year: only 4 computers
* next years: + institutions in Hawaii, London, Norway
* Problem: difficult to manage large amounts of nodes in one network
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## Packet switching
* helps avioding congenstions
* split data at transmission
* join it back when receiving
* think of it as:
* cutting photo in half, putting in 2 envelopes
* recipient glues them back together
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## TCP/IP
* Vinton Cerf
* TCP (transmission control protocol)/IP (internet protocol) stack
* allowed data transfer and communication between over 4B nodes in network
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## SMTP
* one of the first applications
* base for e-mail transfer (still in use today)
* most traffic back then
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World Wide Web
* historically more important; by Tim-Berners-Lee (1991; CERN)
* developed HTML, HTTP and concept of URLs (all still in use today)
* first web browser
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## Commercialization
* development of Mosaic
* rising popularity of AOL
* enabled users to browser the internet from home via telephone line
* search engines, shops, early social networks
* → fully suitable for end users