History Of The Internet

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  • first proposed a global network of computers

    J.C.R. Licklider of MIT. moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  • connected computer over dial-up telephone lines

    Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines.

  • developed plan for ARPANET

    Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet.

  • under a contract

    The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency.

  • Who was the first to use the Internet?

    Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!

  • E-mail

    E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972. He picked the @ symbol from the available symbols on his teletype to link the username and address.

  • 56 Kbps backbone

    the National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as a cross country 56 Kbps backbone for the Internet.

  • World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, more popularly known as CERN, proposed a new protocol for information distribution. This protocol, which became the World Wide Web in 1991, was based on hypertext--a system of embedding links in text to link to other text, which you have been using every time you selected a text link while reading these pages.

  • friendly interface to the Internet

    In 1991, the first really friendly interface to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota.