Timeline: History of the internet

May 24, 1836

First Telegraph Sent

First telegraph sent by Samuel Morse he wrote "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland.

Aug 16, 1858

Trans-atlantic cable becomes operational

The cable running under the atlantic ocean became operational reducing the time for communication between england and america from 10 days to a matter of minutes.

Jul 30, 1876

telephone

Dec 19, 1936

First programmable computer

The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer.

Oct 4, 1957

First Satelite launched

The first sattelite launched was sputnik 1 and was the worlds first artificial sattelite

Mar 26, 1976

First Email sent

The queen sent her first email

Dec 27, 1980

Birth of the internet

The Internet began as a Cold War military technology. It was a way for military computers to communicate over long distances. Other institutions, such as universities and hospitals began to associate their computers through the Internet during the 1970s and 1980s.

Jan 1, 1983

Birth of TCP/IP

On this date, approximately 400 computers connected to a network called ARPAnet all started communicating with each other with a collection of mechanisms known informally as TCP/IP.

Oct 20, 1994