Dion Elmore

assignment ch1

course # 40536

4/27/10

1 UCLA contributed the first I.M.P. connection to the first host in 1969. UCLA developed simulation and created the earliest computer network.

2 Al Gore funded four national super computer centers

3 Rand Corporation Pual Baran conceived packet switching while working at the Rand Corporation

4 Vint Cerf contributed TCP and IP protocols. He also found the @ sign to separate the name of the recipient from the machine.

5 Leonard Kleinrock contributed man-computer symbiosis, the interaction between human and computer. He aslo contributed general information access and helped create the earliest computer network.

6 Jeff Bezos created Amazon and started out selling books online.

7 Marc Andreeseen created mosaic the first internet browser. He also created Netscape Communications.

8 Jonathan Abrams started the internet activity social networking. He created Friendster but Myspace and Facebook became more popular

9 Jerry Yang created Yahoo a search engine that remains one of the most visited sited on the internet.

10 Sergey Brin created Google. Google is the worlds largest search engine.