History of the internet

By geoff99blog

  • First packet-switching papers.

    Packet switrching is network comunications done by sending data in blocks known as packets

  • The Merit Network was founded.

    THe Merit Network is a non-profit organisation and was created to invesatigate resourse sharing by conecting mainframe computers.

  • Planing for ARPANET begun

    ARPANET (Advanced Resource Project Agency Network) was an early packet switching company.

  • ARPANET carries its first packets

  • Network Information Center (NIC)

    The NIC was the internet gouvenred body primarly responcible for domain names.

  • Merit Network becomes operational

  • Tymnet was created

    Tymnet was a international data comunications network with the purpose of conecting host computers (servers).

  • The Internet Assigned Numbers Athority was established

    The INA was made with the purpose of overseeing IP adresses.

  • CYCLAEDS demonstrated

    CYCLADES were the first to make the host reliable for data transfer efforts.

  • X.25 protocall aproved

    The X.25 is a ITU-T standard protocall sweet for packet switching wide area network.

  • Mintel introduced

    The Mintel was aVideotex online service accessible through telephone lines.

  • Ethernet standard introduced

    Ethernet is a family of copmputer networking technologies for both local area networks and metropolian area networks.

  • BITNET established

    BITNET is a co-operative U.S. univercity network.

  • TCP/IP protocal suit formalized

    The Internet protocol suite is the computer networking model and set of communications protocols used on the Internet.

  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission

  • Doman Name System

    The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet.

  • MILNET was made out of ARPANET

    Milnet was made for military reason and was split off of ARPANET.

  • First .com name registered

    This was done by symbolics.com

  • UUNET Founded

    UUNET was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks.

  • Border Gateway Protocol

    Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information.

  • ARPANET Decomitioned

  • Archie search engine

    Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.

  • World Wide Web (WWW)

    he World Wide Web (WWW) is an open source information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links.

  • Mosaic Web Browser

    It has been credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.

  • Full text search engines

    A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.