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President Dwight Eisenhower formed the ARPA, bringing in scientists to help the military use technology to stay ahead of enemies. Lawrence Roberts created computer networks at ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), also working with Leonard Kleinrock. After the packing-switching network was developed, Kleinrock used it to send messages to another website, and ARPA was created. -
Leonard Kleinrock published a book on using packets rather than circuits, which would influence Lawrence Roberts and spark an idea of computer networking. -
J.C.R. Licklider came up with a series of memos that discussed a globally interconnected computer system that could access data and programs. -
Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Merrill connected the TX-2 computer in Mass to the Q-32 in California using a low-speed dial-up telephone line, creating the first wide-area computer network. This resulted in the findings of time-shared computers working together to run programs, and that Kleinrock's packet switching theory worked. -
Ray Tomlinson, a computer programmer, introduced the idea that the @ symbol should be the indication of a message with a destination. This was first used to distinguish between the individual user name and their computer. This started the network of communicating, gossiping, and making friends. -
ARPANET expanded to 30 academic, military, and research institutions connecting various locations from Hawaii to the UK. A new set of rules was put in place for handling data packages, so Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf created a method called Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP), allowing computers to speak the same language. This then grew into a global interconnected network known as the Internet. youtube video -
With the recent inventions of TCP/IP and email, the network grew from 2000 hosts to 30000. People were sending messages, reading news, and swapping files. However, there needed to be more advancements in how documents on the network were formatted. -
Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to CERN, a research lab in Switzerland, that proposed a new way of structuring and linking information available on CERN's computer network. It made it quick and easy to access, making it a web of information, becoming the World Wide Web. -
The National Science Foundation creates an effort to outline a new internet architecture that would support commercial use of the network. -
This browser opened up the web to a new audience of non-academics. People could make their own HTML webpages, and websites grew from 130 to 100000.
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Jerry Yang and David Flo created a site originally called Jerry and David's guide to the world wide web which would later turn into Yahoo. -
Amazon.com, Craigslist and eBay are created transforming the internet into a commercial enterprise. youtube video -
Online dating starts with the first site of match.com which creates a whole new world of meeting partners through the internet. -
Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph created Netflix which was a company that originally sends users DVDs by mail. This would then develop into what Netflix is now. -
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, changing the way users engage with the internet. -
The dot com was overly populated at this time and Yahoo and eBay experience their first hit by online attackers/scammers. This showed users the dangers of the internet and how vulnerable it is. -
Facebook is created which allows people to interact with their friends in a new way of showing pictures, videos, and keeping their social life public in daily use. -
President Obama created two acts one being Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act which requires internet service providers to police copyrighted content. youtube video -
Online banking because very popular with many banks setting up their own apps to allow their customers to access their money through their phone. Over 51% of U.S. adults reported doing so. -
Over 4.66 billion people are connected to the internet. More than half of our population use this globally connected network making us all interconnected through are screens.