OLLI Course: Internet History

Course Summary

  • internet evolutionnext: Medford: Fall 2019?
  • Sessions: 2
  • Course URL: https://communicrossings.com/olli-course-internet-history
  • 50 years ago, UCLA and Stanford exchanged the first message over the internet (Arpanet).
  • 30 years ago, a CERN lab in Switzerland created the first web page.
  • Al Gore's role? First spam email? First web browser? First online purchase?
  • This lecture course will highlight these and other major design and development milestones, along with selected technology precursors and future challenges; it's a much shorter (2-sessions), more up-to-date version of: Internet History and Issues (aka 'Evolution of the Internet')

About the Instructor

steve

Course Materials