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ARPANET
ARPANET was created in the United Stated by DARPA ( Defence Advance Research project Agency) and it was considered to be the beginning of the Internet. It was developed for military Purpose. The aim of the project was to allow different computer to share information and this was also tested with three terminal in three different University. -
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History of the Internet
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Newsgroups, bulletin boards
During the 1970s, a systeam called Usenet Developed Utilising the current network technology of all time. this allowed users to post messages to newsgroups which could be read by all registered menber of this newsgroup. This is systeam was decentralised, meaning that it was spread across several computers and not owned by any one person in time, still had relatively few users compared to today's numbers. -
E-mail
The first in stand message was send through ARPANET at 10:30pm on 29 October 1969. In 1971 Ray Tomlinson developed the concept of E-mail and used the @symbol in addresses for sender and receiver. Email is Electronic mail, sometimes called E-mail. Is a computer based method of sending messages from one computer user to another user to communicate. -
TCP/IP protocol, National Science Foundation (NSF)
On 1 January 1983, all pasts of ARPANET and connected network were officially converted using the same method of communication and data transfer at fundamental level.
In the mid-eighties, the National Science Foundation created their own network similar to ARPANET to for the purpose of education and search, called NSFnet. By the end of the decade the two networks had merged. The result was a stronger backbone, meaning this super-network could comtinue to grow with robust foundation. -
Domain name addressing system
Originally,users od ARPANET would contact other member of the network using telephone number. They would dail into individual computer and that would be the network they could access. Domain names are unique names which use human language rather than computer language. URLs start with www and end in extension such as .com or or .co.uk, and the domain name is part between these. -
Increasing number of host
In 1984, the number of host on the internet reached 1000. Three years later, in 1987, it had exceeded 10,000. One year on and the figure had reached 60,000, and in 1989 it reached 100,000. -
First commercial dialup
Althought modem connected to telephone line had been used from the times of the internet's inception, it was only in late 1990 the dail-up modems became widely avalible to the public , with an online speed of 1960bps, compared to the 56Kbps which became the standard in 1998. -
Search engines
The first search engine was created in 1990 by an American university student. Called Archie, it aim was archive and be able to searchh for information over the internet. At its highest point it reportedly held 150gigabytes of indexing data, which for times was huge amount. -
World Wide Web
The first real webpage was published on the internet in 1991. Prior to this Time Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau, working with CERN, created the feature that allowed this to happen: hypertext and hyperlinks. Time Berners Lee is often credited with the inventor of the World Wide Web. -
First widely used browser (Mosaic)
Mosaic was the first graphical web brower which became popular for use across the Internet. It was release in 1993 and was officially discontinued in 1997. Prior to this the sothware used to view contennt on the Internet was purely text-based. -
Word ‘Internet’ in daily use
It became noticed in1996 that the world 'Internet' was in daily use in the news, the media and society. The world had became part of the national consciousness and almost everyone knew what term meant and understood what the Internet was. -
10 million users
In 1997 the internet reached 10 million users. Considering that was less then 30 years after the conception of the amazing network, it presented a startling rate oftake-up. The exponential rate at which the Internet is still being integrated into societies around the world is astounding. -
Dotcom bubble burst
The dot-com bubble was a stock market bubble which popped to near-devastating effect in 2001. It was powered by the rise of Internet sites and the tech industry in general, and many of these companies went under or learned some valuable lessons when the bubble finally burst. Many investors lost substantial sums of money on the dot-com bubble, helping to trigger a mild economic recession in the early 2000s. -
Skype
Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other people on Skype. You can use Skype on whatever works best for you - on your mobile, computer or a TV with Skype on it -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.
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YouTube
Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
