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THEN AND NOWTHE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB
By: Ethan
1963-1965
SYNCOM - 1963
What: Syncom was the first geosynchronous communication satellite launched
Who: Was made by NASA
Where: Assembled in the Hughes Aircraft Company’s facility in Culver City, California
Total payload is 55 pounds
When: Was created in 1963
Why: It was launched as an experimental satellite and was used to pave the way for many, larger satellites in the 1980’s
How: It was a 55 pound satellite that was launched from a Delta B #20 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral.
ASCII - 1963
Who: A joint industry-government committee
What: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
When: 1963
Where: United States
Why: To create a computer that had letters and numbers, also a computer that you could send messages to and from
How: By putting 7-bit binary integers underneath each letter and number on the key-board
SECURE PACKET SWITCHING NETWORKS - 1964
Who: MIT, RAND Corporation, and the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain
What: It was a race between countries for the first secure packet switching network. The U.S won.
When: 1964
Where: All over the globe
Why: It allowed a person to send a small packets (small units of data) based on the destination address within each packet.
How: They built a network that could transmit packets to a persons intended destination.
PDP-8 - 1965
What: PDP-8 was the first commercially successful minicomputer
It sold for $18,000
Who: The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) created the PDP-8
When: It was created in 1965
Why: Its purpose was to be small enough to fit at a desk, and cheep enough so everybody could have one
Where: It was created at DEC
How: By programming special codes that were much smaller than most computers back then so it could fit on a table
THE FIRST WIDE-AREA NETWORK CONNECTION - 1965
Who: Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill
What: The first wide-area network connection
When: 1965
Where: Santa Monica is where they connected it
Why: To come up with a network that could reach multiple buildings or sights in the area (like hospitals)
How: By connecting TX-2 at MIT to the Q-32 in Santa Monica
