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The Idea of the Internet
The initial idea is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961. -
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Further Development
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The Initial Creation of the Internet
Summer, 1968 - The Networking Group (NWG) holds its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute.
Attendants of the meeting:
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General public learns about Internet
UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. -
The First Network Equiptment
August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called "IMP", which is short for (Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. -
More Info For The First Network Equiptment
On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the switch. -
The First Message and Network Crash
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E-mail Is Developed
Ray Tomlinson sends the first network e-mail in 1971. The first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users. -
TCP Is Developed
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675. -
First Commercial Network
A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced in 1974 and considered to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP). -
The Modem Is Introduced
Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington released the 80-103A Modem in 1977. The Modem and their subsequent Modems become a popular choice for home users to get online. -
TCP/IP Is Created
In 1978, TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP. TCP/IP is later standardized into ARPANET on January 1, 1983 and is still the primary protocol used for the Internet. -
DNS Is Introduced
Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS in 1984, which also introduces the domain name system. The first Internet domain name "symbolics.com" is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company on March 15, 1985. -
First Commercial Dial-up ISP
The first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the US known as "The World" is introduced in 1989. This was the first ISP to be used on what we consider today to be the Internet. -
HTML
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, which made a huge contribution to how we navigate and view the Internet today. -
WWW
Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6, 1991. The World Wide Web (WWW) is what most people today consider the "Internet" or a series of sites and pages that are connected with links. The Internet as a whole had hundreds of people who helped developed the standards and technologies that make it what it is today, but without the WWW the Internet would not be as popular and useful as it is today. -
First Graphical Internet Browser
Mosaic is the first widely used graphical World Wide Web browser developed and first released on April 22, 1993 by the NCSA with the help of Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. A big competitor to Mosaic was Netscape, which was released a year later. Today, most of the Internet browsers we use today, e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc. got their inspiration from the Mosaic browser. -
Java and Javascript
~Originally known as oak, Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems that was first introduced to the public in 1995 and today is widely used to create Internet applications and other software programs.
~Originally developed by Brendan Eich and known as LiveScript, which was renamed to JavaScript in 1995. JavaScript is an interpreted client-side scripting language that allows a web designer the ability to insert code into their web page.
