Nigel Calder on Advances in Batteries & Solar

The Internet is older than most people think. The seminal paper was 1968 and experiments began in the very early 1970s. The Internet began to take off starting in 1981 when using DoD funding Internet support was added to UCB distribution of Unix known as BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). Base standards used today were finalized in 1983 (IPv4). By 1986 NSF saw a need for a research and education network and Al Gore famously pushed through the funding (as a very small add to a supercomputing initiative). That network grew exponentially with circuit speeds increased by 672 (24*28) by early 1990s. Most consumers only saw the Internet in 1994 or later and so they think that is when it came into existance. When you started cruising 40+ years ago the Internet was primarily a set of US government networks plus academia and corporate R&D with research funded by DoD, NASA, DOE, etc soon to be joined by NSF and all academic research plus most large corporations. Still later the masses and social media came along who created the cespool that is not the Internet per se but runs on the Internet. Just fyi.