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The document provides a brief history of the internet from its origins as a US government network called ARPANET to connect computers and allow communication during war, to the development of technologies like packet switching and protocols like TCP/IP that helped the internet grow, to it being connected globally and commercially available. It also discusses the establishment of internet connectivity in the Philippines and initial slow speeds.

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Internet

The document provides a brief history of the internet from its origins as a US government network called ARPANET to connect computers and allow communication during war, to the development of technologies like packet switching and protocols like TCP/IP that helped the internet grow, to it being connected globally and commercially available. It also discusses the establishment of internet connectivity in the Philippines and initial slow speeds.

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Brief History of the Internet

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit.
The satellite, known as Sputnik.

The concept of the Internet was developed while the United States was in the midst of the
Cold War with the Soviet Union. The US government created Advance Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) in response to Sputnik Launch.

In 1962, a scientist from M.I.T and ARPA named Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (a.k.a “J.C.R.
Licklider”) proposed a solution to this problem: a “galactic network” or “Intergalactic Computer
Network” of computers that could talk to one another. Such a network would enable government
leaders to communicate even if the Soviets destroyed the telephone system.

In 1965, another M.I.T. scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer
to another that he called “packet switching”. Packet switching breaks data down into blocks, or
packets, before sending it to its destination. That way, each packet can take its own route from
place to place. Without packet switching, the government’s computer network-now known as the
ARPAnet-would has been just as vulnerable to enemy attacks as the phone system.

Advance Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) is a government–funded


“internetworking”. ARPANET began as a four-node network involving UCLA, Stanford Research
Institute, and the University of California at Sta. Barbara and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
The first message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s
laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at
Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

The Internet was created to respond to two concerns: to establish a secure form of military
communication and to create a means by which all computers could communicate.

By the end of 1969, just four computers were connected to the ARPAnet, but the network
grew steadily during the 1970s. In 1971, it added the University of Hawaii’s ALOHAnet, and two years
later it added networks at London’s University College and the Royal Radar Establishment in
Norway, it became more difficult for them to integrate into a single worldwide “Internet.”

By the end of the 1970s, a computer scientist named Vinton Cerf, He called his invention
“Transmission Control Protocol,” or TCP. (Later, he added an additional protocol, known as “Internet
Protocol.” The acronym we use to refer to these today is TCP/IP.) One writer describes Cerf’s
protocol as “the ‘handshake’ that introduces distant and different computers to each other in
virtual space.”. TCP is a connection-oriented communications protocol that facilitates the
exchange of messages between computing devices in a network. It is the most
common protocol in networks that use the Internet Protocol (IP); together they are sometimes
referred to as TCP/IP.

ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY created on February 7, 1958 by President DWIGHT D.


EISENHOWER
DARPA was established in 1958, is an agency within the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible
for catalyzing the development of technologies that maintain and advance the capabilities and
technical superiority of the U.S. military.
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GALACTIC NETWORK
A network of computers that allows users to gather data and access programs anywhere in the
world
PACKET SWITCHING
The transfer of small pieces of data across various networks. Often, when a user sends a file across
a network, it gets transferred in smaller data packets, not in one piece.
Paul Baran in the early 1960’s, he called the process “message blocks”;
Other scientists including Donald Davies, who would later change the name to “packet switching”.
FATHERS OF THE INTERNET
Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn(TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL)
FATHER OF THE INTERNET IN THE PHILIPPINES – Dr. William T. Torres
MARCH 29, 1994
Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connecting the country and its people to Sprint in the United
States via a 64 kbit/s link.
BENJIE TAN
Early morning on March 29, 1994, 1:15 a.m.: Benjie Tan, established the Philippine’s first connection
to the Internet at a PLDT network center in Makati City.
CISCO 700
A Philippine router that was attached through the services of PLDT and Sprint communications to
SprintLink’s router at the University of San Carlos in Talamban, Cebu, through a 64 kbps lInk to Sprint,
a US internet provider.
SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION
According to the report of ABS-CBN news.com 2015, the results of the latest Ookla Speedtest survey,
confirms that, “Philippines has one of the slowest average broadband speeds, not just in Asia, but
in the world,”.
The Ookla survey, which compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe,
showed the Philippines ranked 176 out of 202 countries as of May 2015. Ookla said results were
obtained by analyzing test data between April 18, 2015 and May 17, 2015.
If ranked only among Asian countries, the Philippines is at No.21 out of 22 countries, as its broadband
speed of 3.64 Mbps was also way below the global average of 23.3 Mbps.
FREE WI-FI
In this Scenario, The ICTO and DOST launched a Free Public Wi- Fi Project and the use of TV White
Space (TVWS) Project. A 2015 government project entitled: “Free Wi-Fi Internet Access in Public
Places”.

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