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Sputnik was the first satellite ever to be launched into space, and with it's launch came the start of a race between countries. The US, wanting to take the next step in this race, formed Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), which worked to create science and technology advances.
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The first permanent link was created in 1969, and this small step foreshadowed the more prodding ARPANET would do into networking.
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The E-mail is created, and along with that, virtual communication is slowly growing. In 1971, there were fifteen nodes on ARPANET.
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The first public packet data service is established. This created a better form of transferring data virtually.
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The communication E-mail provided became a huge success, and in 1977, rhe number of hosts broke a hutdred.
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Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis thought up the idea of creating discussion system that could be accessed worldwide.
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In 1981, BitNet was founded by Ira Fuchs. It's first connection was between Yale and the City University of New York. The network provided electronic mail as well as a number of other things.
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The name server was developed, a system with a large number of nodes. Around the same time, the desktop work stations were created.
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The number of hosts exceeds a thousand in 1984. Along with this swell of new users, the web becomes easier to use with the domain name server introduced
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The power of easy access to the internet goes more public than ever before when NSF creates five supercomputing centers.
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ARPANET was shut down by DARPA in 1990. The system wasn't any longer as effective as other networks running. In the same year though, the world goes on-line.
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A user friendly interface was set up for WWW. Mark P. McCahill led the development of Gopher. Paul Lindner was a co-worker of Mark and together they released the protocol of Gophen from Minnesota.
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The internet starts booming with users. The number of hosts boils over two million.
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Domain names become no longer free in 1995. Along with that, new WWW technologies are being created, like JAVAscript, VRML and ActiveX.
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At this time, the internet has become extremely popular and is being used by people worldwide. In 1997, there were nineteen million hosts and with that, around one million sites.
