Internet History

By Internition

  • First Telegraph

  • Transatlantic cable

  • The Telephone

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Packet-switching (PS) networks developed

  • Birth of Internet

  • People communicate over a network

  • Computers can connect more freely and easily

  • Global Networking becomes a reality

  • Networking comes to many

  • E-mail takes off, Internet becomes a reality

  • Internet gets bigger

  • Power of Internet Realised

  • Commercialisation of Internet Born

  • Large growth in Internet

  • Modernisation Begins

  • The WWW Revolution truly begins

  • Microsoft enter

  • What Next?

    19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups.

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