Innovations Resulting from the ARPANET
"It’s changed the way we access information. It’s been a source of untold growth in applications, services – those are the basic things. The huge successes we all know about – email, YouTube, Facebook, Google – nobody saw any of those coming ahead of time. Suddenly they appeared, and when they did, they caught fire organically and took off."
- Leonard Kleinrock, 3/13/13
Telnet
1969 - Steve Crocker developed the Telnet protocol.
"a host level protocol capable of facilitating a connection between two hosts, where the remote host acts as if the user were sitting directly at that terminal"
- RFC 1, Steve Crocker
Email
1971 - Ray Tomlinson developed email. Users could now send messages directly to a separate machine via the ARPANET. "I was making improvements to the local inter-user mail program called SNDMSG. Single-computer electronic mail had existed since at least the early 1960's and SNDMSG was an example of that. SNDMSG allowed a user to compose, address, and send a message to other users' mailboxes." |
FTP
1971 - Abhay Bhushan developed the File Transfer Protocol, enabling hosts to transfer files over a network.
"I tried to present a user-level protocol that will permit users and using programs to make indirect use of remote host computers. The protocol facilitates not only file system operations but also program execution in remote hosts."
- RFC 114, Abhay Bhushan
"The surprises we experienced along the way have been wonderful and considerable. It also points out that there are future surprises that nobody has thought about, that will be very significant applications, and will suddenly take off and become things we never thought we could do without."
- Leonard Kleinrock, 3/13/13