Internet History Shafer

  • Sputnik

    The Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.
    Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik.
    The US was mad.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.
    He created ARPA.
  • ARPA Created

    ARPA=Advanced Research Projects Agency
    The ARPA was created to help rapidly develop a variety of technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • Packet Switching Network

    BBN begins to create first Packet Switching Network.
    Packet Switching Network used by some computer network protocols to deliver data across a local or long distance connection.
    How packet switching work
  • Bob Taylor

    Bob Taylor was in charge of the Computer Division for ARPA.
    Bob 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.
  • Size of Internet 1969

    It had 23 web pages
  • First ARPANet Connections

    The first ARPANet Connections they were 4 computer attatched to it, and it was in a research lab of UCLA
  • Ray Tomlinson

    Ray Tomlinson invented E-mail.
    It could be used to send infomation to other computers.
  • DNS

    DNS stands for domain name system.
    DNS can be quickly updated and these updates distributed, allowing a service's location on the network to change without affecting the end users, who continue to use the same hostname.
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee was a graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
    The internet could used urls and htmls.
  • Rick Boucher

    He served for 28 years in the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District.
    He permitted the first commercial use of the Internet.
  • MOSAIC - Marc Andreeson

    Marc Andreeson created MOSAIC.
    MOSAIC was a Internet browser.
    MOSAIC was the first Internet browser to show images and text.
  • Youtube Created

    YouTube was founded in February 2005.
    YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park.
    The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.
  • Size of Inernet 2012

    There are at least 8.45 billion pages on the internet