History of the Internet

By No.1 Tassone

  • The Internet is Born

    J.C.R. Licklider of MIT first proposed a global network of computers in 1962

  • The Internet was developed in Defenses

    He moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962

  • Packet Switching was developed

  • The internet connected to other computers

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

  • APRANET was developed

    Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET

  • APRANET was confirmed

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

  • Email on APRANET was developed

    E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972

  • Every University in America had access to the Internet

  • National Science Foundation speeds up the Internet

  • The first signs of a clear Internet Signal

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

  • Y2K

    This problem occured because some computers didn't adapt to the new generation of the internet

  • Facebook is launched

    Facebook's beginning as becoming the most popular social networking site in the world

  • Youtube is created

    Youtube is created by three PayPal employees in 2005 and becomes the only site to upload videos online publicly alongside Facebook

  • Twitter is launched

  • Instagram was launched