History of the Internet

By Buggers
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    History of Internet

  • Sputnik was launched into space by the Soviet Union

    Sputnik was launched into space by the Soviet Union

    The Soviet Union beat the Americans into space, so they started getting worried and scheming

  • ARPA Formed

    American defence was getting worried about the Soviet Union getting into space so started pouring money into developing a network

  • First Paper on Packet Switching Theory

  • First Packets sent

    UCLA tried logging into SRI, the first attempt ended in the system crashing as the letter G of LOGIN was entered

  • Bulletin Board System Introduced

    When BBS first started, most of them were run as a free hobby from the system operator although they really started getting popular after 1980 as modem speed was significantly improved.

  • Email was Introduced

    Invented by Ray Tomlinson, also created the @ symbol

  • Internation Packet Switched Service

    IPSS was created as a collaboration between the United Kingdoms General Post Office, Western Union international and the United States Tymnet.

  • Internet given its name

    First called the "Internet"

  • TCP/IP declared internet standard for military

    US Department of Defense declared TCP/IP as the standard for all military computer networking
  • DNS is introduced

    DNS is introduced

    .com web addresses first used

  • 1000 Hosts reached

  • Internet Reached 10,000 Hosts

  • WWW invented

    Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web

  • Number of hosts reach 100,000

  • First Commercial Dialup

    Available to purchase and use.

  • Term Internet used Daily

    Became a normal word

  • 10 Million Users

    Ten Million Internet users reached

  • Google reaches 1 Billion web pages crawled

  • Facebook first launched

    First only available to Harvard College students before other US universities joined.
    Made available to the public in 2006

  • Google reaches 1 Trillion pages crawled

    Although only a fraction are actually indexed.