ARPANET to Internet: the Historical Growth of ComputerBased Communication

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ARPANET to Internetthe Historical Growth of
Computer-Based Communication
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Brief History of the Internet

• 1969 - The first communication node is installed
  at the University of California, Los Angeles
  ARPANET is born
• 1979 - USENET newsgroups are created and users
  from all over the world conduct online discussion
  groups to talk about various subjects
• 1981 ARPANET has 213 Internet hosts
• 1991 E-Commerce and the World Wide Web emerge
  Internet host numbers reach 617,000
• 1993 - Traffic on the Internet expands at an
  annual growth rate of 341,634 percent
• 1995 JAVA and RealAudio emerge the Vatican
  goes online
• 2001 Internet host numbers reach 125,888,197

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The astronomical increase in the number of
Internet hosts over a five-year period
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Increase in the number of Internet Websites over
a five-year period
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Increase in the Number of Internet Networks1989
1997
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Over 553 million people are currently surfing
the net
worldwide using over 125 million various hosts
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How do you surf?
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