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Frenchman De Valayer establishes a postal system in Paris. He set up mail boxes, and also delivered letters.
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Developing an early mail system
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Pony Express. 183 men ride in hopes of getting a million dollar government contract by swiftly delivering mail on horses.
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Pony Express delivers mail.
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JDR Licklider of MIT proposed a global network of computers
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Lawrence Roberts of MIT connects a Mass. Computer with a Cali. Computer over dial-up telephones.
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Ideas of a global network start, and foundations are layed.
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ARPANET (the internet at the time) comes online under contract by the ARPA. It connects four major university’s computers. (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah)
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Ray Tomlinson of BBN adapts E-Mail for ARPANET. He chooses the @ symbol to connect the username and address.
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The things we use today on the internet and thought of and put together.
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National Science Foundation funds NSFNet. It is a cross-country, 56 Kbps backbone for the internet.
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Peter Deutsch creates Archie. It was by far the greatest thing to happen for the up and coming internet. This software would reach out to all known ftp sites. It would then list all of its files. This would create a gigantic database, and would go on to be known as the World Wide Web.
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Mosiac and Microsoft go butt heads, but Microsoft and Bill Gates come out on top.
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Marc Andreessen releases Mosiac, a graphical browser (we know it today as our internet). This starts a rivalry with Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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Bill Gates and Microsoft release Windows 98. This computer software featured Microsoft Internet Explorer, a well integrated web-browser that was easy to use, thus making everyone wanting to use the internet. With the internet easy to use, people started using E-Mail more, and causing a big internet boom.
