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Computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider comes up with the idea for a global computer network
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Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf collaborated to develop a protocol for linking multiple computer networks together. This would later become the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/cerf-khan-bio.html. google image
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Robert Metcalfe while working for Xerox developed a system of cables that would allow for the transfer of more data over a network system. He names this system Alto Aloha, later its renamed and becomes known as Ethernet Picture from google featuring Metcalfe with his creation the Ethernet
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In 1977, the Apple II becomes the first fully assembled personal computer and is made available to the public. www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/index.html google searched picture of the apple 2
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In 1994, thanks to the introduction of Mosaic, interest in the World Wide Web explodes. Within four years it was estimated that nearly 30 million people were browsing the Web.
