Solaris™ 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide

HISTORY OFTHE INTERNET AND TCP/IP

TCP/IP is at the heart of Internet. When research first started in this area, however, the designer did not consider commercial aspects. Research on a robust and reliable packet-switched network started in the 1960s. Different research papers and infrastructure were proposed by the late 1960s to establish ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). In 1969, the first node was established at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), which was then connected to a second node at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). A hostname-to-address resolution service and a directory for RFCs (Request For Comments; the official Internet documents) were also established. The name of the network was ARPAnet ...