Was it really only 25 years ago.
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Forum Discussion
"What a long strange trip it's been!"
A LOT of people have been involved in the development of what we know today as the Internet. Many (most?) of us were just technology geeks fascinated by the evolving technology and could not foresee where it has gone. My own journey along this road started as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara in 1969 where I was involved in connecting one of the four sites that was the prototype ARPANet. Anyone else have experience with the BBN IMPs? ARPA was funding research on multiple types of network technology and wanted to be able to combine them. The TCP/IP protocols that are the foundation of today's Internet were developed and implemented in the late 70's. In the 80's I attended many IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) conferences. These meetings is where a lot the Internet technology was hammered out. But it was Tim Berners-Lee's introduction of hyperlinks and the creation of the "World Wide Web" with the subsequent evolution of web browsers, that really made the technology accessible to everyone.
(now retired and spending way too much time online)
A LOT of people have been involved in the development of what we know today as the Internet. Many (most?) of us were just technology geeks fascinated by the evolving technology and could not foresee where it has gone. My own journey along this road started as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara in 1969 where I was involved in connecting one of the four sites that was the prototype ARPANet. Anyone else have experience with the BBN IMPs? ARPA was funding research on multiple types of network technology and wanted to be able to combine them. The TCP/IP protocols that are the foundation of today's Internet were developed and implemented in the late 70's. In the 80's I attended many IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) conferences. These meetings is where a lot the Internet technology was hammered out. But it was Tim Berners-Lee's introduction of hyperlinks and the creation of the "World Wide Web" with the subsequent evolution of web browsers, that really made the technology accessible to everyone.
(now retired and spending way too much time online)
