Beginning of the Internet

By brookelarson

  • Established ARPA

    Established ARPA

  • Packet Switching

    Packet Switching-- break messages down to separate components, sends components, reassembles message.
    People started using them to send messages to each other.

  • Established Information Process Techniques

    Established Information Process Techniques office within ARPA
    ~goal: bring together researchers at universities and research institutes

  • First connection between 4 universities

    $563,000 was used to build the first connection via 4 interface messages between computers.
    Schools Include: UCSB, Stanford, UCLA, UofU

  • ARPANET was created

    Charley Kline and Leonard Kleinrock tested new device that would link the Sigma 7 to another computer at Stanford. Typed LOG IN on the computer while on the phone with Stanford to confirm the message went through. Thus creating the ARPANET.

  • UCLA and Stanford permanently connected

    IMPs at UCLA and Stanford were permanently connected. By early December they had both been linked to the USCB and the UofU.

  • ARPANET extended to the east coast

    ARPANET was extended to the east coast and continued to grow and connect by more IMPs.

  • Network E-mail system created

    Network E-mail system was developed. First messages sent by Ray Tomlinson.

  • First Virus was created

  • ARPANET declared fully operational

    ARPANET was declared FULLY OPERATIONAL rather then an experimental project. Including 57 IMPs across the Atlantic in London.

  • ARPANET becomes known at the Internet

    ARPANET became collectively known as the Internet.
    Funding increases: private research institution, universities, fed. gov.

  • Internet in the 1980's

    Internet in the 1980's was only used by privileged minority with access to an open discussion environment that could be used without charge.
    Personal computers start to find their way into the home

  • 213 computers attached to the network

    213 computers attached to the network with another being added, on average, every twenty days.

  • packet switching retired

    Packet Switching protocol used by the IMPs, known as NCP was retired in favor of a more robust standard called TCP/IP. Developed by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton Cerf in the early 1970's

  • Apple commercial

    Apple Commercial
    Computers become the norm
    used for design, calculations, database functions

  • Internet Engineering Task Force

    Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
    Responsibility for medium to short term engineering issues.

  • World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee wrote the program in 1990. First few webpages did not contain pictures.

  • 1993 (The Big Year)

    WWW becomes offical.
    Founded in Switzerland
    Uses HTTP
    client/server software
    different from the internet
    based on graphics, texts, sounds.

  • CRASH

    CRASH

  • Reached 700 million people

    Internet reached 700 million people

  • MySpace, LinkedIn, Skype and Wordpress

  • Facebook

    FACEBOOK was launched by Mark Zuckerberg

  • more then 1 billion people using the internet

    more the one billion people using the internet, 40 million blogs.

  • Facebook introduces News Feed

    Facebook introduces "News Feed"

  • Twitter

    TWITTER was launched in July. Took off in 2007. Began the use of hashtags.

  • Instagram and Pinterest