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Department of Defense commissions the ARPANET to create an Intenet that will allow computers at different locations to communicate with each other! The picture to your left depicts the layout of the first four nodes.
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Important additions to the internet are added in this year. Among the new additions are Harvard and NASA! This conection to NASA is important due to the need to further the space race and put satallites into space for the advancement of the Intenet.
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In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson created the first ARPANET email application when he updated his SNDMSG program by adding a program called CPYNET capable of copying files over the network. This is probably the most utilized internet developement and the one that has had the largest impact on modern communication.
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The term Internet was used for the first time by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in a paper they wrote together called "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection." that described a protocol called "TCP" that incorporated both connection-oriented and datagram services
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Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which allowed coaxial cable to move data extremely fast. This was a crucial component to the development of LANs. This event has been reported by some to have happened in 1974 but it was not until the paper entitled "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks" written by Metcalfe in 1976 was the creation a reality.
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The packet satellite project went into use. SATNET, Atlantic packet Satellite network, was born. This network connected the United States with Europe for the first time.
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The Creation of BITNET, by IBM, "Because its Time Network", introduced the "store and forward" network. It was used for email and listservs. This was basically the precursor to online services. The map to the left is the distribution of BITNET in 1980
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USENET (the decentralized news group network) was created by Steve Bellovin, a graduate student at University of North Carolina, and programmers Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis. It was based on UUCP. Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. The image to your left depict the USENET distribution in 1981.
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On January 1st, every machine connected to ARPANET had to use TCP/IP addresses. TCP/IP became the core Internet protocol
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The University of Wisconsin created a Domain Name System (DNS). This allowed packets to be directed to a name, rather than a number and the server would translate it and send it to the proper IP address.
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Tim Berners-Lee formally introduced his world wide web project to the world on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In the post he said the project "aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere". It did this by using hypertext a method for linking between different documents. Although invented many years earlier Mr Berners-Lee's invention married hypertext with the internet. He also made available all of the files necessary for people to replicate his invention.
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InterNIC created by NSF to provide specific Internet services: directory and database services (by AT&T), registration services (by Network Solutions Inc.), and information services (by General Atomics/CERFnet). This was the start of .com's;.net's and .org's
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Online Services. In 1993, the large network service providers America Online and Delphi started to connect their proprietary email systems to the Internet, beginning the large scale adoption of Internet email as a global standard. This was the turning point that brought the Internet to the masses and made it affordable to the everyday man.
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Approximately 45 million people are using the Interne
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Google opens its first office, in California and Launches its search engine.
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The term Wi-Fi, first used in August 1999, was coined by a brand-consulting firm called Interbrand Corporation that the Alliance had hired to determine a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'. This wireless computer connection revolutionized the industry and created an entire mirad of new possibilities.
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4G Wireless Networks are launched in the United States, allowing for high-speed connections to devices such as cell phones, tablet computers, netbooks, and laptops.
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YouTube begins a all out cultural phenomena
