History of the Internet

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    History of the Internet

  • Mundaneum

    Founded by Paul Otlet (who outlined a concept of a globally connected network of computers in 1934) and Henri La Fontaine, The Mundaneum aimed to "gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification".

  • Packet Switching Paper

    First paper on packet-switching theory written by Leonard Kleinrock.

  • First packet transfer occured

    First packet transfer occurred over the ARPANET between two computers.

  • First email was sent

    The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson. He said "“The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something similar”.

  • TCP split into IP

    TCP split into TCP and IP.

  • TCP/IP standardized

  • DNS System Introduced

    The Domain Name System (DNS) was introduced. The DNS system is easier to use. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.

  • First Worm

  • Restrictions Removed

    Restrictions removed allowing commercial uses. Java is introduced.

  • Java Introduced

    Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1995. Fairly secure and featuring configurable security, it allowed network- and file-access restrictions. Major web browsers soon incorporated the ability to run Java applets within web pages, and Java quickly became popular.

  • Paypal

    First money - sharing network.

  • Large Scale DDos Attack

    A large scale Denial of Service Attack (ddos) occurred on major websites like !Yahoo, Alerting websites to take up higher security.

  • The New Net

    After the censorship of the internet in many main countries such as the US, UK and Australia the Hacktivist group Anonymous releases the "new net" where governments can't even butt in.