History of the Internet

By garrettnugent

  • First Computers

    The first computers, which all logged in to mainframes, the basis for the internet.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET was used to connect military computers so that if one were to go down, there would still be a defense network to use.

  • USENET

    The network that started to use information sharing and discussion.

  • Personal Computers Introduced

    Allowed people to set up their own servers to discuss and share information that was forbidden on main servers.

  • IRC

    The Internet Relay Chat was the first protocol to support peer-to-peer chatting over the internet.

  • World Wide Web

    A standard linked information system accessible across the range of different computers in use.