A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER:

NETWORK

A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: NETWORK

Timesharing, the concept of linking a large numbers
of users to a single computer via remote terminals, is
developed at MIT in the late 50s and early 60s.
1962: Paul Baran of RAND develops the idea of
distributed, packet-switching networks.
ARPANET goes online in 1969.
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf develop the basic ideas of
the Internet in 1973.

In 1974 BBN opens the first public packet-switched

network - Telenet.
A UUCP link between the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and Duke University establishes
USENET in 1979. The first MUD is also developed in
1979, at the University of Essex.

A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: NETWORK

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and
Internet Protocol) is established as the
standard for ARPANET in 1982.
1987: the number of network hosts breaks
10,000.
1989: the number of hosts breaks 100,000.
Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide
Web. CERN releases the first Web server in
1991.
1992: the number of hosts breaks 1,000,000.
The World Wide Web sports a growth rate of
341,634% in service traffic in its third year,
1993.
The main U.S. Internet backbone traffic begins
routing through commercial providers as
NSFNET reverts to a research network in 1994.

QUESTIONS
1. Quando a ARPANET foi ao ar?
2. O que fizeram Bob Kahn and
Vint Cerf ?
3.
Escreva
um
pargrafo
informando o assunto tratado no
texto ?
4. O que TCP/IP em ingls?
(traduza para o portugus
5. Qual o significado do termo
World Wide Web ?

INTERNET
COMPONENTES: AMARIEL, BRUNO, CLUDIO, DANY RAFAEL E
FRANCINALDO

INTERNET
Internet started in 1969, in a military project in
which 21 computers were linked. This means
that a person in one oh those computers could
read the files of any other computer in the
same

network.

This

project

was

called

ARPANET. During the 70s and 80s, computer

technology developed vary fast. Networks were
developed,
everything

like

the

through

ARPANET.
Internet:

You

will

do

shopping,

electronic forums, debates etc. The Internet

will be the necessary basis for our everyday

QUESTIONS
1) O que o texto afirma sobre a
Internet?
Escolha
apenas
uma
alternativa correta e traduza na linha
abaixo.
a) will be a military reality in the
future
b) will be important for everyone
c) is made of 21 computers
d) can be used to develop technology
very fast
e) teachers computer skills

2) Explique o que ARPANET. Resposta

em portugus.

QUESTIONS
3) De acordo com o texto a frase computers
were linked pode ser traduzida como:

a) computadores esto ligados

b) computadores eram desligados
c) computadores no eram conectados
d) computadores esto conectados
e) computadores estavam conectados

4) Explique o que aconteceu entre os anos 70 e

80?

5) traduza a frase: a person in one of those

computers could read the files of any other
computer in the same network.