Mass Media

By madelinemcg

  • Sputnik Released, Starting Global Telecommunications

  • ARPA created by US Department of Defense

  • Beginning of Internet : ARPANET

  • First people communicate & email invented

  • Public Demonstration of ARPANET and 40 machines connected

  • The word "Internet" begins, and TCP/IP created

  • First web browser avaliable (text only)

  • The Year it all Change (look in details)

    • About 50 HTTP servers and about 600 WWW sites on line; -WWW traffic measures 0.1% of backbone traffic. -Declaration that WWW technology would be freely usable by anyone, with no fees. -Working versions of Mosaic browser for X, PC/Windows and Macintosh

  • 10,000 WWW sites

  • 100,000 WWW sites

  • 500,000 sites, Microsoft starts & internet phone avaliable

  • 3.3 Million Sites & 300 million pages

  • 9.5 Million Sites & Online Banking & MP3 begins

  • 575 million sites & estimated 1.4 billion pages & broadband high speed begins

  • 1.3 million sites, streaming media avaliable

  • 22 Million sites & 6 Billion people online