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The start of computers
The Elliott-NRDC 401 was one of the first electronic computers, developed by British electrical company Elliott Brothers in 1952 -
Packet switching
The packet switching concept was first invented by Paul Baran in the early 1960's, and then independently a few years later by Donald Davies. Leonard Kleinrock conducted early research in the related field of digital message switching, and helped build the ARPANET, the world's first packet switching network. -
Arpanet
On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another. -
Emails
Emails were first used by ARPAnet in 1971 and by 1973 made up more than 3 courters of ARPAnet's packets. -
Standford
Standford became the official record keeper of everyone's addresses in 1973. -
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1974 - 1977
In 1974 60 computers were connected to the ARPAnet network and by 1977 over 100. -
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More networks
More networks started to be made and some had even more computers connected than ARPAnet. -
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol was first used by ARPAnet in January 1, 1983 and it was a standard way of formatting packets. And the Internet Protocol was a standard way of assigning addresses -
The Internet
Once networks started using TCP/IP connecting them together became easier. All of the different networks were connected to each other forming the Internet. -
DNS
Paul Mockapetris expanded the Internet beyond its academic origins by inventing the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983. Hosts were arranged into domains like .com and .edu -
NSFNET
Started in 1986, NSFNET grew so quickly after connecting to ARPAnet that less than a year later, it already needed major upgrades to handle all of the new traffic -
NSFNET banning traffic
In 1988 NSFNET decided to connect a couple of private network's emails servers to NSFNET -
ISP
In 1989, we got the first internet service providers, or ISP. These service providers would connect people to a local network and to the internet. -
First commercial emails
In 1989, users of compuserv and mci mail could send the first comemercials across the internet. -
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world -
The Arpanet shut down
The ARPANET was officially decommissioned in 1990, whilst in 1995 the NFTNET was shut down and the Internet effectively privatised. -
Replacement
IN 1990, NSFNET officially replaced ARPAnet as a backbone of the internet and its more than half a million users -
NSFNET shut down
In 1995, NSFNET got shut down and handed everything over to the ISPs.