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History of the internet

By gmaslinski

  • Email

    Email
    Email is a web service used to send and receive text messages and attachments through the web.

  • NPL

    NPL
    At the National Physics Laboratory Donald Davies created a network based on packet switching.

  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP
    The Transmission Control Program and IP protocol were used to unify network methods.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network used by government researchers to transfer information.

  • FTP

    FTP
    The File Transfer protocol is a computer protocol used to transfer files between computers.

  • USENET

    USENET
    USENET is a world wide distributed discussion system that allows access to newsgroups.

  • DNS

    DNS
    The Domain Name System is the decentralized naming system used to identify computer's reachable through the internet.

  • CERN

    CERN
    The first website was created in 1989 by Tim berners-lee on the Cern network.

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web Is the Most Dominant software platform that contains the internet,

  • GOPHER

    GOPHER
    The Gopher internet protocol is a communication protocol used to search for listings of websites in internet networks.

  • HTML

    HTML
    Hyper Text Markup language is one of the most common forms of web programming.

  • MERIT

    MERIT
    The Merit Network was formed to connect three universities together via a network.