Rise of the Internet

speaker: Gary Tan

WWW is a service built on top of the Internet. The killer app of the Internet!

History of the Internet

TCP/IP by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn

Opte Project

Ownership of the Internet: IETF and their RFC system, ICANN

Domain name system (DNS)

Growth in number of webpages slow down after 2000 due to creation of more elaborate websites.

Search engines and ranking of pages (PageRank)