History of the Internet Timeline Fall 2016

By AustinBickford

  • Charles Babbage introduces the first mechanical computer

  • LIbraries used computers

  • Two computers at MIT Lincoldn Lab communicate with one ahother using packet-switching technology

  • ARPAnet went online connecting to four major universities

  • Email invented by Ray Tomlinson

  • Transmission Control Protocol and internet Protocol introduced

  • The Domain Name System (DNS) institues the hosts' names we are now familiar with such as .com .net .org ect.

  • Dial-up bcomes available to consumers

  • The World Wide Web was created

  • Berners-Lee creates 3 technologies: HTML, URL, and HTTP

  • Gopher is created which is point and click navigation

  • Mosaic is created and becomes the most popular internet navigating system

  • Mark andreessen propses IMG HTML tag to show images on webpages

  • Microsoft creates Windows 95

  • Nokia releases a phone with internet access

  • Google opens its first office in California

  • Myspace is launched

  • Wikipedia created

  • Microsoft, launches Xbox Live

  • Apple introduces itunes.

  • Facebook is created

  • Youtube is launched

  • Apple relases first iphone

  • Apple reveals new ipad, pinterestm instagram created

  • The Federal Trade Commission adopts laws to keep the internet free and open

  • Amazon, EBay invented