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ARPANET (Advanced research projects agency network)
ARPANET was the precursor to the Internet. ARPANET was a network created by the United States Defense (ARPA). Established in 1969. ARPANET was like a testbed for network technologies. The idea of this was to try and link networks and computers together. -
Email
Email (Electronic mail) was invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson a computer engineer. It allows somone to send as message to 1 or more recipitents. in 1976 the first person in the UK to send an Email was the Queen. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/10/queen_email/ -
Internet packet switched service
International packet switched service
Collaboration between the General Post Office in the UK, Western Union International and Tymnet in the USA
Network grew to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981
Worldwide network by the 1990s -
TCP/IP protocol, national science foundation
In 1983 communication protocols were used for networks including the internet. -
Domain name addressing system
In 1984 host names were used instead of ip adress. -
10,000 hosts
In 1987 the web had 10,000 host connecting -
First commerial diaup
in 1990 the first commerial dial up was set up. This allows a computer to make a telephone call and connect to the internet through an internet service provider. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee developed the Wolrd Wide Web (www.) in 1991. It is a system of interlinked hyper text documents accsessed via the internet. It allows users to view web pages, that contain , text, pictures, videos and other multimedia through hyperlinks and buttons. -
First search engine
The first search engine was W3Catolog in 1993, it is now inactive. Since then their has been about 60 different engines. The most used search engine is Google. -
First widely used browser
Mosaic was the first widely used browser, this gave the internet publicity and made using the web easier for users. -
Online banking
Online banking enables people to manage their finances via the internet, this includes paying bills, bank transfers aswell as applying for loans. The first ever internet banking to be set up was by Stanford Federal Credit Union in 1994. This first online banking set up in the uk was by the Bank of Scotland for NBS 1983 -
World internet in daily use
in 1996 the world internet was in daily use. This means that people around the wolrd were using the internet however it was less than 10 million -
10 million users
In 1997 the internet reached 10 million users -
Dotcom bubble burst
Dotcom bubble burst refers to when lots of investors invested in the Internet, however the buble burst and market values of companies plummeted after souring since 1998. -
Facebook launched
Facebook launched in Febuary 2004. It now has over 1 Billion users, and had a reveneue of 3 Billion in 2011. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) .It is now widely used to communicate and share photos. Facebook is free to use however Facebook make a revenue of 5 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook). A majority of this is from businesses advertising on Facebook. -
Youtube launched
Youtube launched 14th of Feb 2005. It allows the general public to share, upload and watch other peoples footage. it is now owned by Google who bought it for £1.56 Billion. Youtube played an important role in the development of Justin Bieber. He used YouTube to upload his music. He then was noticed and signed to a label -
First Ipad released
The first Ipad was relesed on the 3rd of April 2010. This changed the market as people now are turning to tablets instead of PC's and Laptop. Many people believe that tablet devices are the future -
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is social media and media for social interactions. it is a way of people to communicate and interact with one another, which is what we are living in now. We have sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as Blackberry messenger. These are all examples of how people communicate, share, upload and interact with each other.
