History Of The Internet

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET

    The was the first network to use packet-switching technology.
  • Email

    Email

    Email was first created in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also decided that the @ symbol to seperate the user name and the computer name.
  • CYCLADES

    This was a network set up by France that was a lot like ARPANET.
  • The PC Modem

    The PC Modem

    The first PC modem was made in 1977 by Dennis Hayse and Dale Heatherington.
  • Spam is Born

  • MUD

    MUD

    This was the first form of multiplayer online games.
  • Usenet

    This was an internet based discussion system, allowing people from all over the globe to talk to eachother.
  • Domain Name Systems

    Domain Name Systems

    This changed IP adresses into something more human friendly, the URLs.
  • The Internet Grows

    There are now 30,000 users using the internet at this point.
  • INC

    INC

    This is when Internet Relay Chat was made and this was the basis for real-time chat we use now.
  • Proposal For The World Wide Web

    Proposal For The World Wide Web

  • First Web Page Created

    First Web Page Created

    This page explained what email was, how it worked and how the World Wide Web worked.
  • The First Webcam

    This was made to solely focus on a coffee pot at Cambridge.
  • First Grpahical Web Browser

    First Grpahical Web Browser

    Mosaic was the first widely downloaded web browser.
  • First Web-based Service

    First Web-based Service

    Hotmail was the first web-based service, and was launched in 1996.
  • Google

    Google

    Google was launched this year.
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is launched this year.
  • Web 2.0

    Web 2.0 tools are intorduced to the public on the World Wide Web