May 05, 2010
A Brief History of the Internet and Web Hosting
Web hosting has a rocky but interesting past. The idea began at MIT in 1962 when J.C.R. Licklider wrote about the idea of a global network that connected computers together to obtain information from various sources, accessing this data from anywhere in the world.
In 1966, Lawrence Roberts developed ARPANET, the first wide-area network. Four years later, he successfully connected four computers that could interact with one another. The four sites holding the computers were located at:
- The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- The University of California at Santa Barbara
- The Stanford Research Institute
- University of Utah
Within the following two years, 19 hosts were added in addition to 13 more nodes. 1971 brought the first e-mail program soon advanced by Lawrence Roberts. He improved it so messages could be sent and received within the built network, creating the @ symbol that is still used in conjunction with email today.
Later in the 1970’s Telenet was developed. This was the first version of an internet service provider. At the same time TCP (transmissions control protocol) split into TCP/IP (internet protocol) to collaborate the networks that were popping up globally.
This technology took off in the 1980’s allowing computers to work individually and still access other networks. This was the same time the term, “Internet” was coined, indicating a group of networks connected by the TCP/IP platform.
Domain name systems (DNS) were developed in 1984. This allowed computers to differentiate themselves from one another on their networks. The first domain names were .edu to indicate education, .mil for military, .gov for government, .com for commercial, .net for network resources, and finally .org for organization.
The first registered domain name was created on March 15th, 1985 as Symbolics.com. Throughout the whole development of the internet, there were commercial restrictions. Finally in 1991, these restrictions were lifted by the National Science Foundation. This allowed for any type of information to be present on the internet.
Due to this ban, many companies saw an opportunity in web hosting. Also in 1991, CERN released the World Wide Web with Tim Berner-Lee’s HTML language. This allowed for the development of websites.
As a technological society, we’ve come a long way from the 1991 and even further from 1962. These are the advanced technologies during these time periods that have allowed us to build and improve over the past few decades. The internet has become a vast and constantly growing placed fueled by innovation and technology.
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