Internet

Rise of the Internet, Web, & Social Media

By maddydenni
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

  • First effective under water internet cable

    First cables reaches across the Atlantic
  • Telephone

    Telephone

  • First Computer

    First Computer

    Harvard Mark 1

  • ARPA

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency, renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972
  • Email

    Email

  • ARPANET

    A network of mainframe computers at major universities, was created

  • USENET

    Users could put articles or post to a newsletter

  • Started seeing personal computers

  • Fiber optic cables were developed

  • How old is the Internet?

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of the World Wide Web on March 12, 1989, making it 25 years old

  • Tim's Beginning of the "World Wide Web"

    The web was never an official CERN project but, Tim found time to work on it using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products.
    Also, solidifying of what we know as the web.

  • Trademark

    The phrase "World Wide Web" was trademarked
  • First Social Network

    First Social Network

    Six Degrees was the first modern social network

  • Napster/Blogger

    LiVEJOURNAL was a network built around constantly updated blogs.

  • Wikipedia

  • Linkedin

    Linkedin

    One of the first mainstream social networks devoted to business
  • Period: to

    Social Media Sites Created

    Flicker, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, Spotify, Google Buzz, Instagram, Pinterest ect.
  • Importance of Submarine Cables

    Importance of Submarine Cables

    Overseas satellite links accounted for only 1 percent of international traffic, while the remaining 99 percent was carried by undersea cable

  • Under Water Cable Success

    Operators had "successfully demonstrated long-term, error-free transmission at 100 Gbps across Atlantic Ocean" routes of up to 6,000 km

  • Today

    Over 75 percent of the world uses the internet daily