``Dot.com'' Turns 20 on Monday, June 23 -- USC School of Engineering, Birthplace of DNS, Available for Comment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2003 On June 23, 1983, the now-familiar navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. that allows email to reach its intended recipients, and information seekers to find the websites they need, was tested for the first time. The Domain Name System, or DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the as the structure of ".com," ".edu" and others is known, was invented by researchers working at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there ) in Marina del Rey. Two ISI computer scientists, the late Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris, created the system as part of the pre-Internet ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as project. Postel gave Mockapetris an assignment to develop a stable system that translated the numerical codes that identified Web addresses into names that were easy for people to use and remember. Mockapetris, now Chairman and Chief Scientist at Nominum, Inc., and Postel, who died in 1998, worked out a plan for a system, which Mockapetris developed and coded. On June 23, 1983, the system was implemented and had its first test. It passed with flying colors. Dr. Mockapetris is currently at ISI as a Visiting Scholar at the Jon Postel Center for Experimental Networking. ISI Executive Director Herbert Schorr is available to comment on two tumultuous decades of Internet development -- and how the Internet will be reinvented over the next decade. |
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