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History of the internet

By alienwarfare

  • Packet Theory

    Leonard Kleinrock suggested the packet theory.

  • Computer Network

    ARPA commissioned computer networks study.

  • Donald Davies

    The English inventor of packet switching is theorizing at the British National Physical Laboratory (NPL) about building a network of computers to test his packet switching concepts.

  • Ray Tomlinson - Email

    Email was invented

  • Ethernet was Demonstrated

    Ethernet is demonstrated by networking Xerox PARC’s new Alto computers.

  • First vector-processor supercomputer

    Seymour Cray demonstrates the first vector-processor supercomputer the CRAY-1.

  • Small Computers

    First very small computers and their potential for communication via modem to dial up services starts a boom in a new set of industries, like software and modems.

  • 200 computers

    By the beginning of the year, more than 200 computers in dozens of institutions have been connected in CSNET.

  • Windows Dos

    First version of Microsoft Windows 1.0

  • WiFi ? or not?

    802.11 was created for cashiers.

  • Internet takes off!

    The number of networks exceeds 7,500 and the number of computers connected passes 1,000,000.

  • Myspace.....

    Myspace.com was created in January of 2003 by a man named Tom Anderson.

  • Net Neutrality

    providers will be able to completely control your service as well as charge you more.