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Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union (Russia) launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into space. The US was very scared about the satellite because they thought this meant they could bomb us. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the president. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, officially establishing NASA. -
ARPA created
ARPA is "Advanced Research Projects Agency" it made early internet. to rapidly develop a variety of technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense.
In 1962, ARPA created the Information Processing Techniques (IPTO) to explore information technology issues. -
Packet Switching Network
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Bob Taylor
Bob Taylor worked to make the first internet, he made all the computers things in one place so you didn't have to be in different places for every network you wanted to be on. he made looking at different networks a lot easier -
First ARPANet connections
They connected the 4 universities, 4 computers and made the first internet connection. -
Ray Tomlinson
In 1971, Tomlinson was a young engineer at the Boston firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman — known today as BBN Technologies.He sent the first ever E-mail. He began by sending messages between two computers in his office. -
DNS
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Size of the Internet
Just over four billion computers -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee was the one that created www. the thing you put before the address. At Oxford he majored in physics and built his own computer out of spare parts. He set up the first web server. -
Rick Boucher
Rick Boucher was a congress man who helped to get it passed that you can buy and sell goods on the internet like on the websites we all use now. like ebay, amason and others. -
MOSAIC - Marc Andreeson
He is is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire. He is best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; as co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation;[3] and as co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. -
Modern Internet
In 1994, most people had to call the bank to check their balances. Or inquire in person, or wait for a paper statement to arrive in the mail. Baseball box scores were found in the newspaper. Weather forecasts came over the phone from the weather bureau, or on TV. Back then, most Americans still had to lick a stamp to send mail. Then along came an experimental browser called Mosaic, followed by an improved browser from Netscape. And if you had a computer, you discovered a new way to this cool,
