Internet

History of the Internet

By walrusstooth
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    Fisrt personal computer

    The Soviet MIR series of computers was created, led by Victor Glushkov. The first small scale computer designed for personal use.

  • Fisrt connection

    Fisrt connection
    For the first time, two computers were connected. Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Labs, Lincoln Labs TX-2 tied to SDC's Q32 talked to each other using packet-switching technology.

  • .ARPA project begins.

    .ARPA project begins.
    Led by Lawrence Roberts, the project was designed to explore computer resource sharing and packet switched communications

  • Fourth Node installation

    Fourth node installed at University of Utah, adding to the ones at UCSB, UCLA, and at Stanford’s research institute.

  • Email Begins

    Email Begins
    First basic Email Programs, SNGMSG and READMAIL written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN. The “@” sign was chosen to mean “at”.

  • Internet beceomes international

    ARPANET becomes international with the linkage of the University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway)

  • TCP is visualized

    TCP is visualized
    TCP, transmission control protocol, is outlined in a paper by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf called "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection". Kahn and Cerf started design in 1973, and released their on the ARPNET work in October of 1977.

  • Apple

    Apple
    Apple is founded by Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak.

  • .com is born

    1. November 1983. Domain Name System designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge to support the addressing space, creating domain names such as .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int.

  • ARPANET is retired

    ARPANET is disbanded and replaced by the World Wide Web, created by Tim Berners-Lee creates

  • Windows 95

    Windows 95
    Windows 95 is released by Microsoft

  • Domain wars start

    Domain names start to sell for very high prices, demonstrating the increased power of the interent.

  • Domain wars end

    Netscape and Microsoft own nearly 100 percent of domain names.

  • The internet is expanding

    There are now over 96 million websites.

  • Voice, data and video combined

    The FR-1000 is released. It is able to accurately control the rate of every TCP flow, and thus be able to combine data, voice, and video in one network effectively

  • A predicted 22 percent of earth’s population surfs the web daily.