History of Networking and the Web

By tleigh1019

  • Telex

    messaging starts as a way to distribute military messages

  • Birth of the Modem

    Computers “talk” over ordinary voice phone lines through modems.
    Developed in 1949 for transmitting radar signals by Jack Harrington’s group at the Air Force Cambridge Research

  • SAGE Air Defense System

    Built by IBM, designed to detect Russian nuclear bombers.

  • Networks come online

    ARPAnet is the first large-scale, general-purpose computer network to connect different kinds of computers together.

  • Internetting

    First sketched out in 1973 by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
    links the three networks ARPA, Packet Radio Network (PRNET) and Satellite Network (SATNET)

  • The Internet

    Officially launched in 1983.

  • Worldwide Web

    By Christmas 1990 Tim Berners-Lee has prototyped the "worldwideweb"