The Internet

The Conception Of The Internet

Aug 6, 1962

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internetThe first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. His vision of the "Galactic Network" is much like the Internet is today.

The First WAN Network

Jul 7, 1965

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internetIn 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Lawrence Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job.

ARPAnet Initiated

Oct 8, 1966

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet
Robert Taylor initiates the ARPAnet project. It is the foundation of the modern internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense.

First Message Sent Via The ARPANET

Oct 29, 1969

Reference : http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/internet_first_words.htmlThe first message ever sent via the ARPANET, 10:30 pm, 29 October 1969. The message was 'LO' . It was supposed to be 'LOGIN' but the UCLA to Stanford link crashed. Professor Kleinrock was supervising his student when they set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to another programmer at the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. They were able to do the full 'LOGIN' an hour later. This record displayed in the image is from the "IMP Log" that was kept at UCLA.

Bolt Beranek and Newman Founds Telenet

Oct 8, 1974

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet
Lawrence Roberts helps Bolt Beranek and Newman found Telenet. It was the first public packet data service, a commercial version of ARPAnet.

Paul Mockapetris Invents Domain Name System

Oct 8, 1983

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet
Paul Mockapetris expands the Internet beyond its origins by the invention of the Domain Name System (DNS). It is a hierarchical distributed naming system for any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the entities. It can also be easily memorised by humans.

Tim Berners-Lee Creates WWW

Oct 8, 1989

Reference : https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
At CERN, the European Physical Laboratory, Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau is a key proponent of the project, and helps Berners-Lee author a proposal for funding.

World Wide Web Opens to Public

Oct 8, 1991

Reference : http://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet
The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet. Web pages are primarily text documents formatted and annotated with Hypertext Markup Language. In addition to formatted text, web pages may contain images, video, and software components that are rendered in the user's web browser as coherent pages of multimedia content.

Gradual Shift From Web 1.0 To Web 2.0

Oct 8, 2000

Reference : https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27960/web-10
There was a gradual shift from web 1.0 that consisted of non-interactive read-only content to web 2.0 that consists of user-generated content, crowdsourcing, blogging and social media.

Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia.

Jan 15, 2001

Reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001.
There are half a million Internet users at this point of time.

First Youtube Video

Apr 23, 2005

Reference : http://time.com/3833222/first-youtube-video/
On April 23, 2005, at 8:27 p.m., YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first YouTube video “Me at the zoo.”
Shot by high school friend Yakov Lapitsky, it shows Karim talking about how cool elephants’ trunks are. The nearly 20-second clip has been viewed nearly 20 million times.
Youtube is one of the most significant tools on the Internet.

The Internet Today

Oct 8, 2015