A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks

Internet Technical Evolution.During the course of its existence, the IAB has reorganized several times.At present, the publication function is provided by an RFC editor.In 1980-81, two other networking projects, BITNET and CSNET, were initiated.Most of the original BITNET connections linked IBM mainframes in university data centers.This rapidly changed as protocol implementations became available for other machines.From the beginning, BITNET has been multi-disciplinary in nature with users in all academic areas.Для подготовки данной работы были использованы материалы с сайта.