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ARPANET
ARPANET is considered the to be the begins of the internet, it was created by DAPRA, in the US, as with a lot of new technology's it was designed for a military purposes, although it was a research project to allow them to share information. -
Email
After devopting a method of connection computers together the next stage was communicating the first message was sent across Arpanet 10:30pm on October 29th 1969, the @ symbol was then added later in 1971, this secured the successful implementation of ARPANET -
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Newsgroup bulletin bored
During the 1970’s unsent developed, utilising the currant network tech at the time, this allowed users to poste massagers to newsgroups witch cloud be read by all registered members. -
International packet switch service
international packet switch service: the first packet packet-switched network like ARPANET was created in 1978 it was a collaboration between western union, Tymnet, and the poste office in the UK, this system was successful the IPSS network grew and sped from the US and UK to other country's. -
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Incresing number of hosts
in 1984 the number of hosts on the internet reached 1000, three years later in 1987 it had exceeded 10 000 and in 1988 it had reached 60 000 an din 1989 it reached 100 000 it would however be another three years before the number toped 1 000 000, the figure in now well over 500 000 000 -
TCP/IP protocol NSF:
On January 1 all parts of Arpanet and connected networks were officially converted using the TCP/IP every part of the network could use the same method of communicating and data transfer at a fundamental level -
Domain mane addressing system
Originally users of Arpanet would contact other members of the network using telephone numbers they would dial into an individual computer and that would be the network they could access. -
Search engines
The first search engine was created in 1990 by an American university student. called Archie, it’s aim was to archive and and search for information over the internet, at the highest Pont it was reported to hold 150 gigabits of data, (witch at the time was a huge amount), but if this is compered with the 20 000 terabytes that Google process daily is very small -
First commercial dial up
Although modems had been used since the internets inception it was only in the late 1990’s that dial up modems had become widely available to the public, it had a speed of 9600bps compered to the 56Kbps witch became the stranded in 1998, current speeds can be form 1 Mbps to 50Mbps and even faster in Japan it is possible to get speeds up to 11000 Mbps -
WWW
The first webpage was published in 1991, prior to this Tim burns—lee and Robert cailliau, working with CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), created the feature that allowed it to happen; hyper text and hyper links. Burns-lee is often credited with creating the World Wide Web. -
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Mosaic
Mosaic was the first commercially used web browser for use across the internet it was relesed in 1993 and wasd discontinued in 1997. -
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World 'internet' in dayly use
It became noted in 1996 the the world 'internet' was in daily use in the news, the meda and society. the world had part of the national consciousness and almost everyone knew what the term meant and understood what the internet was. -
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10 Millon users
In 1997 the internet reached 10 million users. Considering that this was less than 30 years after the conception of this amazing network it represents a startling rate of tack up. The exponential rate at which the internet is still being integrated into society’s around the world is astounding -
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.COM bubble burst
With the rise of the popularity of the internet and the introduction of E-Commerce, many company’s and individuals jumped on the bandwagon and a huge assortment of websites were setup offering products and services, some of the business were hugely successful, some made millions in a few months, but this rate of business was not sustainable and in 2000 the .COM burst, this means that a lot of people in these short-term, high profit company lost slot of money as there business collapsed.