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restin256:
The ISPs are connected to eachother, and every computer on the internet has some direct or indirect connection to them.

worker201:
The original network was built over AT&T cables - for some reason, AT&T didn't get the whole concept and rented the lines to ARPA for pennies on the dollar.  Originally, there were like 5 computers, at MIT, BBN, Stanford, and a couple other places.  As the benefits of file sharing grew, other universities and tech companies were added to the system.  Back then, there was a special computer that sat in front of the mainframe that could translate incoming and outgoing network packets, and you couldn't connect to the net without one.  Thanks to the brilliant work of Cisco and Xerox PARC (inventers of routers and ethernet, respectively), it became simple to add all kinds of computers to the network in the 80s.

So alot of work goes into sending a "whatup" message on ICQ - it might travel around the country to get to the next cubicle!

Basic history of the internet - don't use this in a research paper.  Instead, read "Nerds 2.0.1" for an easy to read non-tech history, with pictures and anecdotes.

M51DPS:

quote:Originally posted by worker201:
Basic history of the internet - don't use this in a research paper.  Instead, read "Nerds 2.0.1" for an easy to read non-tech history, with pictures and anecdotes.
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I read most of that book a while ago, some fascinating stuff.

Paladin9:
Where do internet domain names come from?  how do the people who sell them get em?

Ron:
Tim Berner is to blame for it all. Check out the W3C consortium. And domains are like caravans - you buy it, take it wherever you want, park and connect up. And while you're out, some thieving bastard sneaks in, steals it and has it up for sale on eBay by lunchtime. And did you know that until Dubya bombed fuck out of it, Iraq had one of the most advanced fibre-optic - based comms networks in the world? Still, now it'll get rebuilt in true American style - slow, buggy, bloated, full of crap, expensive, intrusive, and unable to process several instructions at once (Ever seen Dubya chew gum and walk at the same time?)

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