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SPUTNIK SATELLITE
The soviet union launched the world's first manmade satellite into orbit. The satellite known as Sputnik did not do much, but because of it, after sputnik's launch, many americans began to think more seriously about science and technology. -
THE BIRTH OF ARPANET
A scientist from M.I.T. and ARPA named J.C.R. Licklider proposed a solution to the problem: a "galactic network" of computers that could talk to one another. Such a network would enable government leader to communicate even if the Soviets destroyed the telephone system. -
PACKET SWITCHING
Another M.I.T. scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer to another that he called: "packet switching." Packet switching breaks data down into blocks, or packets, before sending it to its destination. -
"LOGIN"
ARPAnet delivered its first message: a "node-to-node" communication from one computer to another. (the first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a small house.) A short and simple message such as "LOGIN" was sent, but it crashed the fledgling ARPA network, and the Stanford computer only received the first two letters. -
THE NETWOK GROWS
The ARPAnet grew steadily during this year. -
TRANSMISSON CONTROL PROTOCOL
A computer scientist named Vinton Cerf begun to solve this problem by developing a way for all of the computers on all of the world's mini-netwok to communicate with one another, he called his invention "Transmission Control Protocol or TCP" -
NETWORKS
As packet-switched computer networks multiplied, however, it became more difficult for them to integrate into a single worldwide "internet". -
1980's
Researches and scientist used it to send files and data from one computer to another. -
WORLD WIDE WEB
The internet changed again a computer program in Switzerland named Tim Berner-Lee made an introduced to World Wide Web which was not simply away to send files from one place to another, but was itself a "web." -
1992
A group of student and researcher at the university of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic (Which later became Netscape).
Mosaic allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time and to navigate using scrollbars and clickable links.
In that year Congress decided that the Web could be used for commercial purposes. As a result people started to make their own social networking sites.(Such as Facebook, MySpace, GMAIL, etc.)
