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  1. tcf.org › content › commentaryThe Internet of 1988 - The Century Foundation

    Nov 5, 2013 · Using Internet and overlapping networks, thousands of men and women in 17 countries swap recipes and woodworking tips, debate politics, religion and antique cars, form friendships and even fall in love.

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  3. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › in-1988-one-rogueIn 1988, One Rogue Worm Shut Down 10 Percent Of The Internet

    Nov 3, 2015 · On November 3rd, 1988, about 6,000 internet users booted up their systems and noticed something strange. Normally speedy programs were moving like molasses. Networks, riddled with weird...

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  4. archive.nytimes.com › www › times1988: ‘The Internet’ Comes Down With a Virus - The New York Times

    Aug 6, 2014 · In 1988, Robert T. Morris, a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell, created a virus that inadvertently resulted in the “jamming of more than 6,000 computers nationwide in this country’s...

  5. www.computerhistory.org › internethistory › 1980sInternet History | Computer History Museum - CHM

    • 1980. Landweber’s proposal has many enthusiastic reviewers. At an NSF-sponsored workshop, the idea is revised in a way that both wins approval and opens up a new epoch for NSF itself.
    • 1981. By the beginning of the year, more than 200 computers in dozens of institutions have been connected in CSNET. BITNET, another startup network, is based on protocols that include file transfer via e-mail rather than by the FTP procedure of the ARPA protocols.
    • 1982. Time magazine names ‘the computer’ its ‘Man of the Year.’ Cray Research announces plans to market the Cray X-MP system in place of the Cray-1. At the other end of the scale, the IBM PC ‘clones’ begin appearing.
    • 1983. In January, the ARPANET standardizes on the TCP/IP protocols adopted by the Department of Defense (DOD). The Defense Communications Agency decides to split the network into a public ‘ARPANET’ and a classified ‘MILNET, ‘ with only 45 hosts remaining on the ARPANET.

  6. www.fbi.gov › news › storiesThe Morris Worm — FBI

    Nov 2, 2018 · At around 8:30 p.m. on November 2, 1988, a maliciously clever program was unleashed on the Internet from a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This cyber worm was soon...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_the_InternetHistory of the Internet - Wikipedia

    The use of NSFNET and the regional networks was not limited to supercomputer users and the 56 kbit/s network quickly became overloaded. NSFNET was upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s in 1988 under a cooperative agreement with the Merit Network in partnership with IBM, MCI, and the State of Michigan.

  8. historyoftheinternet.net › timelineTimeline - History of the Internet

    1988 government funded IP and Internet Backbone. NSF awarded a contract to IBM, MCI and Merrit system to develop and build a new IP for a new network that was to be called the Internet. Officially it was another closed network that was to be used for government, academic, and research only.

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