lecture02: Brief Computer Network History

This lecture provides a brief computer network history

Topics covered

• 20th century
• Moore's Law
• Gilder's Law
• Networking drivers
• The Internet
• The Early Internet
• The Internet: the 80's
• Early Internet Growth
• The Early Internet
• Networks of networks
• The Internet: the 90's
• Early Internet Growth
• Early Internet Bandwidth Growth
• Backbone link speed growth
• Access vs Backbone
• Early Internet Bandwidth Growth
• Internet Traffic Growth
• Australian Traffic Growth
• The Early Internet
• Will it ever stabilise?
• Economics lesson
• Maps of the Internet
• Other computer networks