History of Computer Networking¶

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1940s: Big computers like ENIAC. Used punch cards for input and output. Can only compute one thing at a time, and be used by one person.

1960s: Efforts to connect different computers together were underway. Plans for ARPANET published in 1967.

1969: Telnet emerges.

1970s: Time sharing becomes the dominant paradigm, allowing many humans to use the same computer.

1973: Ethernet was developed at Xerox PARC between 1973 and 1974. It was inspired by Robert Metcalfe's ALOHAnet.

1977: A logical map of ARPANET published.

1981: University of Southern California comes up with IPv4.

1983: Telnet transitioned to TCP/IP; this constituted the start of what we know as "the modern internet".