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Licklider
J.C.R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who proposed a "galactic network" of computers that could talk to one another. This would enable government leaders the ability to communicate. -
Technology Timeline
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ARPANET
Arpanet was created by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) during the Cold War and was the first fully working packet switching network. The purpose of this was to share resources on the computer for scientific purposes. Information in little components (packets) could be sent to many people easily and they could be rebuilt at their destination. -
Email
Email is a protocol of sending, receiving and saving/storing messages. These communication networks can be computers, laptops or mobile phones. The first email system that sent messages to someone’s desk was MAILBOX; this was used by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. The first email was sent between computers that were next to each other, the connection between the two used was ARPANET. -
TCP/IP Protocol
The TCP/IP protocol was used to convert all parts of any networks including ARPANET so that they could use the same means of communicating. Both the TCP and IP were developed by the Department of Defense. The purpose of this was to connect together a variety of networks, the services that these networks provided was mail, file transfer and remote login. -
Tim Berners-Lee
The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers.Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks (specially programmed words, phrases, buttons, or graphics). Unlike other Internet protoco -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was invented by Computer Scientist Tim-Berners Lee. The initial purpose was to make software available to scientists to share information globally through a computer. During 1991 the first version, of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) was published. This was the language used by hypertext documents to communicate over the internet. -
Mosaic
Marc Andreessen and his team at the University of Illinois invented Mosaic, which later became Netscape a user friendly way to search the web. -
Skype
Skype is an internet based computer software, it allows the user to communicate to others around the world via video and audio based technology. -
You Tube
YouTube is a website that allows users to watch and share videos online. It currently has over 1 billion unique users each month.
