Abstract
In less than three decades, the Internet was transformed from a research network available to the academic community into an international communication infrastructure. How did it all start and where does it stand today? This chapter refreshes the reader on the main events, technologies, and design principles that led to the Internet we know today, and discusses why the very original design that enabled decades of unprecedented innovation on the Internet is falling short of satisfying the user requirements after three decades of its inception. Fortunately, the history of the Internet and its original design principles have been thoroughly documented in several books and articles from which the material in this chapter is directly derived.
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Khoury, J.S., Abdallah, C.T. (2013). The Internet. In: Internet Naming and Discovery. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4552-3_1
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