History of the internet

By juian77

  • The BELL company

    creates the first modem that allowed to transmit binary data over a simple telephone line

  • The BELL company

    creates the first modem that allowed to transmit binary data over a simple telephone line.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    publishes a first theory about the use of packet switching to transfer data.

  • Initiation of investigations by ARPA

    J. C. R. Licklider successfully defends his ideas regarding a global computer network.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    publishes a book on packet-switched communication to implement a network

  • ARPANET

    First conference on ARPANET

  • Connection

    Connection of the first computers among 4 American universities through the Interface Message Processor of Leonard Kleinrock

  • Ray Tomlinson.

    23 computers are connected to ARPANET. First email sent by Ray Tomlinson.

  • InterNetworking

    Birth of the InterNetworking Working Group, organization responsible for managing the Internet.

  • Internet access

    England and Norway adhere to the Internet, each with a computer.

  • Groups

    Creation of NewsGroups (discussion forums) by American students.

  • TCP / IP

    Definition of the TCP / IP protocol and the word "Internet"

  • Sites

    First server of names of sites.

  • Connections

    1000 computers connected

  • Connections

    10,000 connected computers

  • Connections

    100000 computers connected

  • ARPANET

    Disappearance of ARPANET

  • web

    The World Wide Web is publicly announced

  • Connections

    1 million computers connected

  • NCSA

    First searcher of the story, Wandex served as an index of web pages.

  • Connections

    10 million connected computers

  • Bubble

    Explosion of Bubble

  • Bubble

    First website that allowed tactile interaction.
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