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Sputnik.
The Soviet Union was able to place the first sattelite into space, scaring the american people and government. -
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Internet History
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The Creation of IPTO
The IPTO (Information Processing Technologies Office) wa created by the ARPA during the cold war. They were given the job of sending messages to different military bases. -
The Developement of Packet Switching
The IPTO, in 1966, developed a new method of transmitting data over telehone wires. Packet switching is still used today and relies on digital technology. Packet switching works by breaking up the messages and then reassembling them when it reaches its destination. -
Leonard Kleinrock Sends First Message
Leonard Kleinrock was an ARPA contractor working on computer science at UCLA. In the september of 1969 he created the first processer capable of handling the aforementioned packet switching data. This allowed them to send a packet of data between to Standford University all the way across the country. -
The Creation of E-Mail
ARPAnet began to grow slowly over time and more features were added. One of these features would be e-mail messaging and went on to become most of the traffic of the network. -
BBN and Telenet
BBN is a computing firm in Cambridge Massachutes, that was responsible for a lot of the hardware in the ARPAnet. In the mid 1970s they created the first public network known as "Telenet". -
Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
Researchers at BBN and Stanford created a network of networks that was reffered to as the Internet. The type of communications between the two computers was known as theTransmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol or TCP IP. Soon other networks followed including the ARPAnet in 1982. -
HTML
At this point in time, there was no multimedia available on the internet, it was only words. At CERN a scientist named Tim Berners-Lee created HTML to manipulate they way information is presented on a site. -
Gopher
The internet at this point was starting to grow and it became harder to find things on it. In 1991, the first search program named "Gopher" was released. -
WAIS System.
The one shortcumming of Gopher was that it was unable to search by content, only by titile. This was overcome by the WAIS system in 1992, which could search by both title and content. -
Hyperlinks
Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina, where students working at the NCSA were making the internet more easily accessable to more people. This resulted in the creation of hyperlinks that lead people directly to a site. -
Mosiac
Created at the same time as the hyperlink, the first publicly sold web browser was created. By 1993 tens of thousands of people were downloading it. -
Internet Explorer.
The most commonly knwnweb browser is most likely internet explorer. This was created in 1995 by microsoft. -
XML
The Extensible Markup language was created in 2002 and is the modern language of computer. This language makes websites more easily accesable on handheld devices such as phones. -
The Modern Internet
Today the internet is used by almost every single person in the modern world and has roughly 12 hundred million sites.
