History of The Internet

By LittleRed96

  • Batch Processing

    Before 1957 computers only worked on one thing at a time. Computers had to be stored in a cool room. A lot of wasting time, bugs, a lot of manual work.

  • Time Sharing

    Time sharing involved using one computer with multiple users, created a link so that you didn’t have to be in direct contact. But knowledge still transferred by humans.

  • New network created

    This network would soon become the ARPANET, this stopped double research.

  • Package Switching Networks Developed

    Internet relies on packets to transfer data.

  • Dev elopment Began

    Small computers put in front of main frame as universalists were cautious of sharing comps.

  • Birth of the Internet

    ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking

  • Poeple communicate over a network

    E-mail invented -- a program to send messages across a distributed network.

  • Computers connect easier and more freely

    First public demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines.

  • Global Networking Becomes a Reality

    First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway).

  • Packets become mode of transfer

    Transmission Control Program (TCP) specified. Packet network Intercommunication -- the basis of Internet Communication. Telenet, a commercial version of ARPANET, opened -- the first public packet data service.

  • Network comes to many

    Queen Elizabeth sends out an e-mail.

  • E-mail takes off, Internet becomes a reality

    Number of hosts breaks 100.
    THEORYNET provides electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally developed E-mail system and TELENET for access to server).

  • Things Start to Come Together

  • TCP/IP defines future communication

    DCA and ARPA establishes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET.

  • Growth of Internet Continues

    Number of hosts breaks 1,000.
    Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced.

  • Power of Internet Realised

    5, 000 Hosts. 241 News groups.
    NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56 Kbps)

  • Commercialisation of Internet Born

    Number of hosts 28,000.

  • Large Growth in Internet

    Number of hosts breaks 100,000
    First relays between a commercial electronic mail carrier and the Internet

  • Expansion of Internet Continues

    300,000 Hosts. 1,000 News groups
    ARPANET ceases to exist.

  • Friendly User Interface to WWW established

    Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the U of Minnesota.

  • Most Important development to date

    World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer.

  • Multimedia changes the face of the Internet

    Number of hosts breaks 1 Million. News groups 4,000.
    The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.

  • The WWW Revolution truly begins

    Number of Hosts 2 Million. 600 WWW sites.

  • Commercialisation begins

    Number of Hosts 3 Million. 10,000 WWW sites. 10,000 News groups.
    ARPANET/Internet celebrates 25th anniversary
    Local communities begin to be wired up directly to the Internet (Lexington and Cambridge, Mass., USA)
    US Senate and House provide information servers
    Shopping malls, banks arrive on the Internet

  • Commercialisation continues apace

    6.5 Million Hosts, 100,000 WWW Sites.

  • Microsoft enter

    12.8 Million Hosts, 0.5 Million WWW Sites.
    Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology (which has been around for years)
    The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.

  • What Next?

    19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups. http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm
    14-02-12 reference