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Sputnik
Sputnik was the first ever satellite launched into space and Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union. It was launched on October 4th 1957 when Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office. They wanted to be bigger and better and JFK vowed to have a man on the moon before the Soviets. The United States did so, but many people wonder if it was a hoax because the Soviet Union was becoming too advanced, so the United States needed to show that it was also progressing. -
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ARPA was created
What does ARPA stand for? The answer is Advanced Research Projects Agency. Why was ARPA created? The creation of ARPA was authorised by President Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. -
Packet Switching Network
A way to transfer "Packets" from one network to another one through different paths. It's a way to get around if one section is down then they can just go around the broken connection. -
Bob Taylor
Taylor hoped to build a computer network to connect the ARPA-sponsored projects together, if nothing else to let him communicate to all of them through one terminal. -
First ARPANet connections
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the world's first operational packet switching network and the project of what was to become the global Internet. The network was initially funded by the ARPA within the U.S. Department of Defense for use by its projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Rob. The first ARPANET only had 4 imp connections. -
Ray Tomlinson
Ray Tomlinson created a thing that almost everysingle person has Email. Almost everybody has an email and none of it would be possible if it wasn't Ray Tomlinson. It changed the way ARPANet was connecting. Instead of walking to tell people they just sent an Email telling the person of what they have found. -
DNS
What does DNS stand for? DNS stands for Domain Name System. The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for these names into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee was born in southwest London, England, on June 8th 1955. He invented WWW ( World Wide Web) in 1989. -
Rick Boucher
He served for 28 years in the United Statees House of Represenitives represinting Virginis's Ninth Congressional Districk.
He permittted the first commercial use of the internet. -
Mosaic - Marc Andreeson
Marc Andreeson created MOSAIC
MOSAIC was a popular Internet browser.
MOSAIC was the first Internet browser to show images and text. -
Facebook was created
It was the most popular website in 2011 with 910,000,000,000 page views. -
Youtube was Created
Youtube is one of the biggest thing to ever come to the internet. In 2011 it was the 2nd most popular thing besides Facebook with 100,000,000,000 page views. -
Size
The internet grew to almost 8.5 billion people
