important events in the internet

By lm3657

  • ARPANET

    The Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invented the ARPANET network

  • E-MAIL

    Ray Tomlinson invented a program that lets people send mail electronically-email!

  • COMPUTER TO COMPUTER CHAT

    The first computer-to-computer chat took place between a person at Stanford University and a person at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc (BBN) in Massachusetts.

  • NETWORK VOICE PROTOCALL

    The Network Voice Protocol was invented as a way to allow people to send voice over the Internet.

  • FIRST MAILING LIST

    Steve Walker invented the first mailing list that allowed many people get the same mail message.

  • The idea of using symbols

    The idea of using symbols -) came from Kevin Mackenzie

  • DNS

    The DNS or Domain Name System is invented.

  • IRC

    Jarkko Oikarinen invented inter-relay-chat (IRC)

  • world wide web

    Tim Berners-Lee was the inventor of the World Wide Web

  • "surfing the internet"

    Jean Armour Polly was the first to coin the term “surfing the Internet.”

  • MBONE

    The first Multicast Backbone (MBONE); audio and video broadcasted to multiple computers simultaneously occurred.

  • Mosiac

    The first web browser is created and it is named Mosaic

  • Free WWW

    The CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due