Selasa, 29 Maret 2011

                  The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. The IPTO's purpose was to find ways to address the US military's concern about survivability of their communications networks, and as a first step interconnect their computers at the Pentagon, Cheyenne Mountain, and Strategic Air Command headquarters (SAC). J. C. R. Licklider, a promoter of universal networking, was selected to head the IPTO. Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.


Professor Leonard Kleinrock with the first ARPANET Interface Message Processors at UCLA


                  A plaque commemorating the birth of the Internet at Stanford University
At the IPTO, Licklider's successor Ivan Sutherland in 1965 got Lawrence Roberts to start a project to make a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran, who had written an exhaustive study for the United States Air Force that recommended packet switching (opposed to circuit switching) to achieve better network robustness and disaster survivability. Roberts had worked at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory originally established to work on the design of the SAGE system. UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock had provided the theoretical foundations for packet networks in 1962, and later, in the 1970s, for hierarchical routing, concepts which have been the underpinning of the development towards today's Internet.
                  Sutherland's successor Robert Taylor convinced Roberts to build on his early packet switching successes and come and be the IPTO Chief Scientist. Once there, Roberts prepared a report called Resource Sharing Computer Networks which was approved by Taylor in June 1968 and laid the foundation for the launch of the working ARPANET the following year.
                 After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on 29 October 1969. The third site on the ARPANET was the Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the fourth was the University of Utah Graphics Department. In an early sign of future growth, there were already fifteen sites connected to the young ARPANET by the end of 1971.
                 In an independent development, Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory developed the concept of packet switching in the early 1960s, first giving a talk on the subject in 1965, after which the teams in the new field from two sides of the Atlantic ocean first became acquainted. It was actually Davies' coinage of the wording packet and packet switching that was adopted as the standard terminology. Davies also built a packet-switched network in the UK, called the Mark I in 1970. Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN), the private contractors for ARPANET, set out to create a separate commercial version after establishing "value added carriers" was legalized in the U.S. The network they established was called Telenet and began operation in 1975, installing free public dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. Telenet was the first packet-switching network open to the general public.
Following the demonstration that packet switching worked on the ARPANET, the British Post Office, Telenet, DATAPAC and TRANSPAC collaborated to create the first international packet-switched network service. In the UK, this was referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. The collection of X.25-based networks grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981. The X.25 packet switching standard was developed in the CCITT (now called ITU-T) around 1976. X.25 was independent of the TCP/IP protocols that arose from the experimental work of DARPA on the ARPANET, Packet Radio Net, and Packet Satellite Net during the same time period.
                         The early ARPANET ran on the Network Control Program (NCP), implementing the host-to-host connectivity and switching layers of the protocol stack, designed and first implemented in December 1970 by a team called the Network Working Group (NWG) led by Steve Crocker. To respond to the network's rapid growth as more and more locations connected, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the now widely used TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974 with the publication of RFC 675, the first full specification of TCP that was written by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, then at Stanford University. During the next nine years, work proceeded to refine the protocols and to implement them on a wide range of operating systems. The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by 1 January 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols.


T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992
In 1985, the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) commissioned the construction of the NSFNET, a university 56 kilobit/second network backbone using computers called "fuzzballs" by their inventor, David L. Mills. The following year, NSF sponsored the conversion to a higher-speed 1.5 megabit/second network that became operational in 1988. A key decision to use the DARPA TCP/IP protocols was made by Dennis Jennings, then in charge of the Supercomputer program at NSF. The NSFNET backbone was upgraded to 45 Mbps in 1991 and decommissioned in 1995 when it was replaced by new backbone networks operated by commercial Internet Service Providers.
The opening of the NSFNET to other networks began in 1988. The US Federal Networking Council approved the interconnection of the NSFNET to the commercial MCI Mail system in that year and the link was made in the summer of 1989. Other commercial electronic mail services were soon connected, including OnTyme, Telemail and Compuserve. In that same year, three commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began operations: UUNET, PSINet, and CERFNET. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the Internet include Usenet and BITNET. Various other commercial and educational networks, such as Telenet (by that time renamed to Sprintnet), Tymnet, Compuserve and JANET were interconnected with the growing Internet in the 1980s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The adaptability of TCP/IP to existing communication networks allowed for rapid growth. The open availability of the specifications and reference code permitted commercial vendors to build interoperable network components, such as routers, making standardized network gear available from many companies. This aided in the rapid growth of the Internet and the proliferation of local-area networking. It seeded the widespread implementation and rigorous standardization of TCP/IP on UNIX and virtually every other common operating system.


This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
Although the basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost two decades, the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan-European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW, patterned after HyperCard and built using the X Window System. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic, technical Internet. By 1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web.
Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate). During the late 1990s, it was estimated that traffic on the public Internet grew by 100 percent per year, while the mean annual growth in the number of Internet users was thought to be between 20% and 50%. This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network. The estimated population of Internet users is 1.97 billion as of 30 June 2010.
From 2009 onward, the Internet is expected to grow significantly in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia (BRICI countries). These countries have large populations and moderate to high economic growth, but still low Internet penetration rates. In 2009, the BRICI countries represented about 45 percent of the world's population and had approximately 610 million Internet users, but by 2015, Internet users in BRICI countries will double to 1.2 billion, and will triple in Indonesia.

Sumber : WIKIPEDIA (Internet)


Rabu, 09 Maret 2011

Week Without Walls

Recently I’ve gone on a field trip which is held by my school. It’s theme is called “World Without Walls” or WWW for short. I went on the WWW on February 8th this year. For the field trip, I went to Jakarta and Bandung. First we went to Jakarta with Garuda airlines. There we visited the ACS (air catering service) of Garuda Indonesia and the Garuda Training Center.
In the Garuda ACS center, they told us how they make the food that we usually eat on flights. There are lots and lots of big refrigerators and a big room sized freezer that is very-very cold. We went in, but only some of us went out. No no no just kidding. We all came back out safely. In the Garuda training Center, we were showed of how flight attendants were trained and how to escape during an emergency landing. After that, we went to Bandung just to eat and rest in the Amaris Hotel.
Second day, I woke up on 5 o’clock in the morning. I was so sleepy and I slept some more in the bus when we went to our first destination, Asian-African Conference museum. There we were explained of how the conference was held and the countries that attended the first and second Asian African conference. There was a room where the biodata of each conference attendants were shown. After that we went to the museum, we went to Distro shopping center where we shop and interview the shop owners. I didn’t buy any stuff even though there were special discounts because nothing really fitted me there. So I sat and wait until it’s time for lunch.
After we had lunch, we went to a T-Shirt making company, C-59 a giant company in Indonesia. There we were explained of how to make the pictures we see on our T-shirts and also how the fabric was turned into clothes. A few of us bought some clothes there and next we went to a very big store in Bandung. There were food stands and also a huge clothing and accessory store which I bought nothing there. After that, we went to PVJ (Paris Van Java) which is almost like a mall, but it is somehow different than a mall. There are lots of cloth stores there and also many restaurants. There I only walk around with my friends and eat. :D
After that, we went back to the hotel and rest.
The next day, we woke up at 6 and packed everything up. Then we went to an angklung center in Bandung. There we saw performances of an angklung band and we learned to play angklung there too. After the angklung center, we went to Jakarta to catch our flight which was on 5 evening. After we reached the airport, we went back to Surabaya and arrived safely.


Selasa, 08 Maret 2011

Biodata - William W

Hello everyone! My name is William W and I'm a student at Cita Hati Senior High school. Now I'm sitting on the 10th grade and I'm doing this blog for my computer lesson.


I'm only 15 now and I live in Surabaya, Indonesia. I have 2 siblings, both younger than me. The first one is Winny and she's 14, the second one is Wallace which is only 5 now. My mother is Jinny and my father's name is Khrist. I have a girlfriend, Laurentia :). I usually am called "Wonka" (which is really annoying) because of my 5th grade teacher who's crazy.


Well that's all about me :D


Biodata - William W

Hello everyone! My name is William W and I'm a student at Cita Hati Senior High school. Now I'm sitting on the 10th grade and I'm doing this blog for my computer lesson.


I'm only 15 now and I live in Surabaya, Indonesia. I have 2 siblings, both younger than me. The first one is Winny and she's 14, the second one is Wallace which is only 5 now. My mother is Jinny and my father's name is Khrist. I have a girlfriend, Laurentia :). I usually am called "Wonka" (which is really annoying) because of my 5th grade teacher who's crazy.


Well that's all about me :D