History Of Internet (Content)

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• 1 Precursors
• 2 Three terminals and an ARPA
• 3 Packet switching
• 4 Networks that led to the Internet
• 4.1 ARPANET
• 4.2 NPL
• 4.3 Merit Network
• 4.4 CYCLADES
• 4.5 X.25 and public data networks
• 4.6 UUCP and Usenet
• 5 Merging the networks and creating the Internet (1973–90)
• 5.1 TCP/IP
• 5.2 ARPANET to the federal wide area networks: MILNET, NSI, ESNet, CSNET, and NSFNET
• 5.3 Transition towards the Internet
• 6 TCP/IP goes global (1989–2010)
• 6.1 CERN, the European Internet, the link to the Pacific and beyond
• 6.2 Global digital divide
• 6.2.1 Africa
• 6.2.2 Asia and Oceania
• 6.2.3 Latin America
• 6.3 Opening the network to commerce
• 6.4 Growth of private infrastructure
• 7 Networking in outer space
• 8 Internet governance
• 8.1 NIC, InterNIC, IANA and ICANN
• 8.2 Internet Engineering Task Force
• 8.2.1 Request for Comments
• 8.3 The Internet Society
• 8.4 Globalization and Internet governance in the 21st century
• 9 Use and culture
• 9.1 Email and Usenet
• 9.2 From Gopher to the WWW
• 9.3 Search engines
• 9.4 File sharing
• 9.5 Dot-com bubble
• 9.6 Mobile phones and the Internet
• 10 Online population forecast
• 11 Historiography
• 12 See also
• 13 Notes
• 14 References

15 External links