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Packet-Switching Networks Under Development
Between 1962 and 1968 packet-switching networks were being developed. Improvements and alterations were made constantly over the years as more knowledge was gained. -
Merit Network Created
The Merit Network was created, which was an early network that data was shared through. -
ARPANET Established
On October 29, 1969 the first message using ARPANET was sent. It was only successful in sending the "L" and "O" from the word "login" begore the system crashed.
For more of the history of ARPANET:
ARPANET -
Trans-Atlantic Connection Established
On August 16, 1973 the first Trans-Atlantic internet connection was established. It connected the University of London in England, to the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. After this development, email became very popular. -
TCP/IP Formally set as the Standard Protocol
The U.S. Departement of Defense set TCP/IP as the standard protocol for all military networks.
Read more about TCP/IP here:
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Domain Name System (DNS)
The DNS is an Internet protocol. It is a naming system for computers or any other devices that are connected to the Internet. -
NSFNET Operating
The NSFNET backbone network service began in July of 1988. This network linked scientists and educators nationwide. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Tim Berners-Lee starting in the late 1980's. It was a project that took a while to complete. The main idea of the World Wide Web was to provide read-only hypertext documents to viewers around the world.
World Wide Web -
Government Websites
The first Government websites were started in August of 1993. These websites had the domain name, ".gov". -
Google
Google became very popular in 1998 and 1999. What initially started as a school project, became what is now one of the biggest corporations of the 21st century. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. The first ever published text-post was, "Hello world". Now, Wikipedia has over 4 million articles.
