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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.