Client-Server and Internet Applications
By Alan Dix, Lancaster University
Three interrelated aspects:
- TCP/IP protocol suite
- standard Internet applications
- coding using UNIX sockets API
Development of Internet & TCP/IP
- 1968 First proposal for ARPANET – military & gov’t research Contracted to Bolt, Beranek & Newman
- 1971 ARPANET enters regular use
- 1973/4 redesign of lower level protocols leads to TCP/IP
- 1983 Berkeley TCP/IP implementation for 4.2BSD public domain code
- 1980s rapid growth of NSFNET – broad academic use
- 1990s WWW and public access to the Internet