Computer Networking

By xmf

  • First Commercial modem

    AT&T developes the first commecial modem, Dataphone.

  • Online transaction processing beigns

    IBM´s SABRE reservation system connectect thousands of computers to share airline data.

  • First teller machine

  • The first e-mail is sent

  • Ethernet is invented

    Robert Metcalfe devised the Ethernet method of network connection at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

  • Telenet Is invented

    Telenet, the first commercial packet-switching network and civilian equivalent of ARPANET, was born.

  • Usenet is established

    USENET was invented as a means for providing mail and file transfers using a communications standard known as UUCP.

  • The ARPANET splits into the ARPANET and MILNET

    ARPANET is later renamed Internet

  • The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL) is founded.

  • The World Wide Web was born

    With the Invention of HTML the web expands to what we see today.