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Creation
The internet began in a place not too far away from Canada. The development of the internet started in the late 1960s in California, United States. Leonard Kleinrock is credited for the introduction of the internet's concept with his publication of "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" which happened on May 31st, 1961. -
Communication from one to another
Packet switching technology was used to communicate between two computers back in the day. The first ever use of the packet switching technology happened between two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab. Later this device was enhanced and finalized as the interface message processor (IMP). With the finalized version of the IMP Beranek and Newman Inc. was able to win the ARPANET contract. -
First Meeting
The first meeting was held discussing how to solve issues related to getting hosts to communicated with Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. -
Public Debut
A press released by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) introduced the public to the internet. Which allows us to be able to access all sorts of information that can be found in any library. Even with the public's debut remember not all the people were able to afford computers so not a lot of people had access to the internet. They knew only of the internet's concept. -
First Message
Unlike today, messaging didn't exist until 1969. The first ever message was sent from Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at the University of California to a computer located at SRI. -
E-mail
Have you ever heard of the word E-mail? We'll without Ray Tomlinson you wouldn't be able to able to create any accounts on social media. While people are slowly getting introduced to the new technology of the century Ray Tomlinson created the first messaging system called e-mail. -
Birth of the Internet
With University College of London and Royal Radar Establishment connected to ARPANET global networking starts; the term internet is created. -
Establishment of the Domain Name System (DNS)
The domain name system also know as DNS allows users to be able to remember the system for naming websites easier with letters and not numbers.
Ex: .edu .gov .com .org .ca
Before DNS was created you would be seeing numbers such as: 149.112.112.112
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NSFNET goes online
As the NSFNET goes online at 56 000 bits per second (speed of typical computer modem). As the days goes by the speed gradually increases. Also with the NSFNET the internet expands throughout the US. -
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML which continues to impact the way we navigate and view the internet today. Without HTML this website would not exist because HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) uses codes to create content such as "heading", "paragraph", and so on. These codes then create what you see on this website. -
World Wide Web become public
Now everyone with a computer is able to access the World Wide Web. Allowing you and I to use and see this website and any other website. How can you find out? The World Wide Web (www) which can be found right after https://. -
Netscape Communicator is born
Netscape which was created by JavaScript programming language is the most widely used language for client-side scripting (meaning the technique involved in developing web pages that run on costumer's browser) of web pages. -
Buying items only has begun
Amazon and eBay which were founded and created on different years now can be found the internet. Amazon which was founded by Jeff P. Bezos and created on 1995 only went online after 1 whole year of waiting. eBay on the other hand was founded by Pierre Omidyar in the year 1995 then later uploaded on September 21st, 1998. -
The dating pool is now open
Match.com is the first ever dating site introduced to the public. It served over 50 countries in 12 languages. If you want to see Match.com's headquarter, it can be found in Dallas, Texas; Tokyo; Rio de Janeiro; and Beijing. -
Netflix is Created!
Netflix is an American production company located in Los Gatos, California. It was found in the year 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. The company's business is to provide movies, shows, cartoons, and international sources of entertainment to its subscribers. -
Debut of Social Media
Myspace is an American social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world from 2005 to 2008. It was headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service that was origanally launched with the name FaceMash in July 2003, but later changed it to TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin -
YouTube starts!
YouTube is a video-sharing platform that's headquarter is in San Bruno, California. You can find almost anything you need here from music, animations, movies, cartoons, how to cook, other how to make videos, and many more. Fun fact, YouTube's founders are Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. All the founders were employees of PayPal before finding YouTube. -
Instagram now exists!
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, it was first launched exclusively for iOS on October 2010. One year and a half later a version for Android was released. -
Tik Tok
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, dance, and talent videos. The app was launched for iOS and Android in markets outside of China in 2017.
