The Internet turns 30 this week2013-01-03 09:49 by DanielaTags: Internet
Tim Berners-Lee may be considered the "father" of the world wide web as we know it, but a hugely important ingredient of the modern internet was switched on 30 years ago yesterday, as the US government's ARPANET started running the TCP/IP communications protocol. The internet, originally short for "internetworking", had first existed to connect research and academic institutions together, but 1983 saw the moment when individual networks were connected securely and in such a way that the failure of a single component did not bring down the whole net. TCP/IP had been adopted by the US military in 1980 following successful tests across three separate networks, and when it went live ARPANET was managing 400 nodes. TCP/IP played a part in the birth of Gopher in 1991, an application that allowed for the retrieving of documents over the Internet. Gopher is seen as the predecessor to the modern Web, although Tim Berners-Lee was developing HTML around the same time. The features using TCP/IP have become so popular that the Internet has been running out of addresses for devices. To fix this, IPv6 launched in June, expanded the number of address from 4.3 billion to trillions upon trillions of addresses. Read more -here-
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