Economics 1021A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Network Economy, Icann, Cern

• School: Western University
• Department: Economics
• Course: Economics 1021A/B
• Professor: bruce hammond

Document Summary

Arpanet (advanced research projects agency network) (august 1969): Invented from the us department of defence during the cold war. 1983: separation into military us (milnet) and civilian use (first interconnection) Invention of the nsfnet (national science foundation network) in 1986. 25 times faster than arpanet (1986: 56 kbit/s, 1988: 1,533 mb/s) Birth of the internet as a medium of mass communication: january 1st, 1983. Explosive growth of hosts (storage space) and users since the late 80"s: Standardization and connection of several networks (infra-structure of information) enables. 2009 broad usage of internet services (commercial introduction) 1983: internet architecture board (iab) is founded divided into ca. 1989: the commercial pressure increases and the iab receives a new structure: Steers the further development of the internet as an independent non-profit organization, December 1991: first www server at stanford university (usa) Development in germany: university of dortmund - 1st connection & german website. 1989: tim berners-lee (cern, switzerland) first draft/proposal for the www.