Timeline

History of the Internet

By MsValleau
  • Networking Invented

    Networking Invented

    Thomas Merrill and Lawrence G. Roberts connected the TX-2 computer from MIT in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California using a low-speed dial-up telephone line creating the first wide-area computer network.
  • Electronic Mail Debuts

    Electronic Mail Debuts

    At the International Computer Communication Conference (ICCC) electronic mail was introduced as application, The US military utilized this to create their Advanced Research Projects Agency network (ARPANET) that linked military computers.
  • International Networking Begins

    International Networking Begins

    The first international and intercontinental network is established when the University College of London located in England and the Royal Radar Establishment of Norway connect to the US military's ARPANET.
  • World Wide Web Goes Public

    World Wide Web Goes Public

    Developed by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Caillau in 1989, they created a standard linked information system accessible across the range of different computers. This system had to be simple so that it could work on both PC terminals and high-end graphical computers. In August 1991 their system went public.
  • The First Browser

    The First Browser

    In 1993 the first web-browser, Mosaic, took the Internet by storm; having been developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA).