ABSTRACT
This chapter chronicles the phenomenal growth of the Internet. It discusses steps that were taken to stimulate growth, and explains some of the consequences and opportunities that arose from rapid adoption. In 1980, the Internet was merely a research project. A handful of universities and research labs had copies of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) software. By 1985, it was becoming a production network system. While Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) worked on the Internet research project, another technology came from a research lab and swept the computer science community: an operating system. In the early 1970s, a small team of computer scientists at Bell Laboratories built a new operating system called the Unix Time-sharing System. DARPA realized that the Berkeley work on operating systems reached many universities, and decided to use it to disseminate Internet software. Berkeley incorporated the software into their version of the Unix system, and modified application programs to use TCP/IP.
