The Internet prehistory (<=1969)

The Internet prehistory (<= 1969 )

Characteristics

Technologies

  • Telegraph (1836)
  • Telephone (1876)
  • Sputnik (1957)
  • modem (1958)
  • Mouse (1962)
  • ASCII (1963)

Concepts

  • Memex (1945)
  • Cybernetics (1948)
  • paper “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960
  • paper  “Information Flow in Large Communication Networks” : Packet Switching (1961)
  • paper “On Line Man Computer Communication (1962)
  • paper “On Distributed Communications Networks” (1962)
  • Global Village (1962)
  • fuzzy logic (1965)
  • ARPANET Plan (1966)
  • OLIVER (1968)
  • The Mother of all Demos at the Joint Fall Computer Conference in San Francisco (1968)
  • RFC’s (1969)

Usages

  • ARPANET (1969)

Pioneers

Corporations

ICT in Luxembourg