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Donald Davies invented Packet Switching. Packet Switching breaks up information into chunks and sends the information through different pathways, with the same different information. It was glitchy when they tried to use it for military and satellite communications. -
ARPANET was the predecessor to the Internet. It allowed for computers to interact with each other all across the country. It also allowed people to share information on a single network through the telephone lines. The first message on ARPANET was sent on October 29, 1969. It unfortunately did not get all of the message, only a "L" and a "O" before a bug caused it to crash. It served its purpose until 1990, when it was officially demolished. -
The Internet was founded in 1983, on January first. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1st, 1983, hence the official birth of the Internet. It was created by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, the scientists that invented the set of protocols that governs how data moves through the network. -
Symbloics.com was the first ever company to Debut with a .com website. It was a year before the HP and IBM and two years before Apple decided to give it a try. It was shut down in 1993, but the website is still used as an Internet museum of sorts. -
It was first proposed by british scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989. It was proposed as a better way for scientists to share data between each other. In order to achieve this, Berners-Lee wrote three different websites, URL, HTML, and HTTP. These websites would create a user friendly interface to use for the Internet. -
In 1993, the company AOL printed millions of trials on the Internet. CDs were mailed to homes, included with purchases at Barnes & Noble and Best Buy, and even stuffed into cereal boxes. -
Electrical engineering students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a human-edited web directory they initially dubbed “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web” in January 1994. Two months later, they shrewdly renamed it “Yahoo,” an abbreviation of “Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle,” and a new way to browse the web was born. -
Billed as one of the world’s first free web-based email providers back in 1996, Hotmail gave users an opportunity to access their inbox anywhere in the world. It wouldn't be long before Microsoft acquired the company in December 1997 for $400 million—and by 1999, the service registered more than 30 million active members. -
Simply put, the technology allows digital devices to exchange data via radio waves, according to Scientific American, and it's now a standard feature on everything from tablets and phones to video game consoles and robot vacuums. -
It originally started as a website for Harvard students. Not only has it connected people across the globe and, more importantly, reunited high school friends who share a love for cat videos, but it precipitated an ongoing reckoning about the harmful effects of social media on individuals, politics, and societies around the globe. -
If not for the epic wardrobe failure of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson, the founders of YouTube would never had debuted their new website. They wanted to create a platform to capture moments like that. -
The Internet has come a long way in development and changing in many ways. It started as a way to communicate to other scientists within the U.S. to uploading videos for the whole world to watch. We are still to see if the Internet is helpful or harmful.