Building the Internet

Abstract

The foundations of what we know today as the Internet were laid in 1960s by a group of researches in the USA working together in the federally funded Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). In the 1970s, several parallel evolutions empowered the making of an international global computer network based on a consensual protocol standard. We will also follow the history of operating system approaches, which led to the industry wide acceptance of the UNIX-family as server operating system, the evolution of standard programming languages and the importance of the open system movement. With the commercialization of the Internet in the 1980s, the foundation was established for a broad distribution of new applications and businesses.