30 Dates of the Internet

By LydiaGrumke

  • Charles Babbage designs first mechanical computer

  • Television electronic is invented

  • First paper on pocket switcher

  • Two computers at MIT Lincoln College communicates using pocket switch technology

  • First ARPANET Plan

  • BBN's Ray Tomlinson introduces network email

  • University of London is the first international entity to connect with ARPANET

  • first ISP is born with telenet

  • Microsoft was invented by Bill Gates

  • Atlain produces the first portable computer

  • Apple is founded

  • Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol emerge as the protocol for the Internet

  • The Domain Name System instates host names

  • The White House and United Nations are online

  • Microsoft introduced Ms Dos 2.0

  • World.std.com becomes the first commercial provider of dial up access to the internet

  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web

  • Berners-Lee writes/creates HyperText Mark up Language (HTML, URL, HTTP)

  • CERN introduces the www to the public

  • first web page

  • the first audio and video are distributed over the internet

  • Amazon, Ebay, go live

  • Java is introduced

  • google search engine is born

  • Facebook goes online

  • Era of social network begins

  • Youtube was invented

  • Internet's 40th Anniversary

  • Government has technology to tape into communications

  • Google unveils google assistant