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The Telegraph
Video URLThe Telegraph revolutionised human communication. It is the long-distance transsmission of messages using Morse code (a sereies of sots and dashes). Samuel Morse was the first to succefully experiment with an electrical recording telegraph. It was the begininng of all electronic communications. -
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
The Transatlantic Cable allowed instantanious communication across the atlantic ocean. Cables are our main connection still today, it connnects all continents electronicly -
Telephone
Image URLInvented by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone is a point-to-point communication system that allows two people to talk to each other from a distnace away -
The First Computer
Image URLThe Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was the very first general-purpose computer. -
USSR Sputnik I
Russia sends out the first atificial sattelite into Earth's orbit. -
FUnding
President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. -
John Licklider's Theory on a Computer Research Program
Licklider begins theorizing about the global computer network. This starts an explosion of thinking among electronic engineers. -
World Area Network
The first 'world area network' is created -
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
The Worlds first working packet switching network plans were published. This would be the core network of a set that came to be the global web -
The First Node
The first node is connected to ARPANET -
Interface Message Processor (IMP)
The Interface Message Processor was the packet-switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET from the late 1960s to 1989 -
23 Computers
There were now 23 computers in existence (115 nodes) -
The First E-mail
Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail. it was a test e-mail sent from one computer to one right beside it.
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APRNET Goes Public
ARPNET is released to the public -
First International connection
ARPA deploys the first international connection,SATNET from the University college of London -
TCP/P
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network. -
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Networks launched
A variety of networks are launched, open to the public: Telenet, MIENet, HEPNet, SPAN, Usenet, Bitnet, CSNet, Eunet, EARNet -
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Internet Status
internet is very chaotic, ARPNET is still thhe backbone -
Microsoft launches
Image URLMicrosoft lauches for the first time, it would eventually gorw to dominate the home computer operating system -
Apple Inc.
image URLApple Inc. is an american multinational corporation that designs and sells coputer electronics, computer software and home computers. It grew huge after the ipod and the ipad -
Emoticons Invented
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ICP/IP
The internet born using the ICP/IP standard. -
Introduction to DNS
The Domain Naming System is a hierarchical system of distributed naming for computers, services or anything else connected to the internet -
National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET
This was a program of projects, sponsered by the National Science Foundation, to promote learning in electronical fields
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ARPANET Shut Down
Image URLARPANET was shut down after the introduction of the NSFNet, but some IMPs remained in service as late as 1989. -
www
image URLUsing concepts from his earlier hypertext systems Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. This was the first browser-editor system -
Archie
Image URLArchie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine -
NSF allows public
NSF removes the restrictions on private access -
Internet is huge!
There are now 3,2 million hosts and 3000 websites -
Hotmail
Image URL:Hotmail is a free web-based email service owned by Microsoft and is part of Windows Live. It was one of the first web-based email services. -
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main standards organizer for W3 -
Commercialism in the internet begins
You could now order pizza online and use the bank through the computer -
Java Source Code Released
Image URLjava is a programming language released as a core compnent of Sun microsofts' Java platform -
ICQ - The first instant messaging system
Image URLThe first instant messaging program is released by an israeli company, Mirabilis -
Google is founded
Image URLGoogle inc., and american company specialized in internet search, cloud computing and advertising technologies. The company was founded by Larry Page -
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Facebook
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Facebook was created by Mark Zucherburg in 2004, as of this year it has over 845 million active users. It is the most used social networking program worlwide -
Youtube
Photo URLYoutube is a very popular video sharing site created by three former paypal employees. It was bought by google in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars and is now a subsidary of google -
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blog/social network site that has over 4.4 million active users.
