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The USA planned ARPANet, (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) which was the first iteration of what we now know as the internet. It was made in the height of the cold war. The main reason for the creation of ARPANet was that the soviet union had launched the sputnik satellite that spurred the US Defense Department to figure out alternative ways to relay communication in the case of nuclear outbreak.
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The First working prototype of the internet was launched, Its used packet switching to allow computers to communicate on one network .Packet switching is what the internet uses to send information up till now, It is when the information to be sent is broken up, sent through different routers and then re-assembled into readable information.
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Ray Tomilson Discovers that its possible to send information buy adding the "@" symbol to the computers host name and recipients name. This will end up as the emails we all know now as "Gmail" and "Yahoo Mail". -
Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (the duo said by many to be the Fathers of the Internet) publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a standard that defines how to establish and maintain a network conversation by which applications can exchange data. TCP works with the Internet Protocol (IP), which defines how computers send packets of data to each other.
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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) was made to facilitate better transfer of mails. They also help to process and deliver messages to several recipients. These then grew into SMTP servers that we use as of now. More popular and bigger websites such as Gmail us IMAP ( Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol).
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The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, such as 123.456.789.10.
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BOOTP(Bootstrap Protocol) is an internet protocol that lets a network user automatically be configured to receive an IP address and have an operating system booted without user involvement. It can be seen as an early iteration of the DCHP.
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The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Tim Berners-Lee. He was a British scientist. He achieved this feat while he was working at CERN. CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. They are physicists and engineers who probe the fundamental structure of the universe.
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The World is an Internet service provider originally headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was the first commercial ISP in the world that provided a direct connection to the internet, with its first customer logging on in November of the same year. It had a rocky start with tons of government officials blocking and threathning to block The Worlds internet connection.
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The Network Information center is born, This company was also called InterNIC. It was responsible for allocating domain names and X.500 services. -
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) made by the the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group at the Internet Engineering Task Force. It was invented to limit required human intervention in network systems. It was originally defined in RFC 1531 in October 1993 as a superset of the BOOTstrap Protocol (BOOTP). -
At first membership of the internet was only limited to academic and research organizations who had made contracts with the Defense Department. This Eventually grew into what we now know as the internet.
Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the worlds first browser and editor -
Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The company was later incorporated in March 1995.
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Match.com the first ever dating site is launched by Gary Kremen and Peng T. Ong in San Francisco. As of now the site is still one of the most popular sites for 30 to 40 year old's but it has faced several issues. one of them being that 10% of their profiles are fake made by catfishers and scammers to get money, goods or intercourse.
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Its Here! The first ever viral online meme named "The Dancing Baby" is made. Its a 3d animation of a baby performing a cha-cha type dance. the creators are Michael Girard, Robert Lurye and John Chadwick
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The company Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Unlike the Netflix we know know, Netflix used to be a company the would send the DVD's of movies to their users. However in January 2007 Netflix put up more fight against their competitors when they announced their streaming service as a "Watch now" platform.
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President Barack Obama's administration announces its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, which would have enacted broad new rules requiring internet service providers to police copyrighted content. The successful push to stop the bill, involving companies such as Google and nonprofit organizations including Wikipedia, is considered a victory for sites such as YouTube that depend on user-generated content, as well as "fair use" on the internet.
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Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, reveals that the NSA had in place a monitoring program capable of tapping the communications of thousands of people, including U.S. citizens.
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The fifth generation of websites have arrived. It enabled way faster internet speeds when downloading and uploading. However the faster the internet goes the less range there will be. It is a glitchy connection when you're behind walls.
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By January 2021, there are 4.66 billion people connected to the internet. This is more than half of the global population.
The amount of traffic on the internet surpasses any of the previous years