Nerds
2.0.1:
A Brief History of the Internet

A Review
of Terms/Names
= a link
to the Nerds 2.0.1 homepage
= a link "'Net Structure/Culture/History"
or the local mirror of "Hobbes' Internet
Timeline"
Part One: Networking
the Nerds
ARPAnet
Bob Taylor
BBN (Bolt, Beranek, and Newman)
packet
packet switching
TCP/IP
Domain name
Part Three: Wiring
the World
The World Wide Web
-
CERN
Tim Berners-Lee
HTTP
URL
Ted Nelson
hypertext
Ray Tomlinson
browser
Marc Andreessen
-
client-server
search engine
Last revised: May 24, 2000 8:25 AM
Comments: jbutler@ua.edu