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Timeline about the internet

By vINovaSpamsLT N.C

  • Telecommunication cable

    Telecommunication cable
    helps people commutate across the world way easier

  • TCP

    TCP
    The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a core protocol of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.

  • packets

    packets
    A packet is the unit of data that is routed between an origin and a destination on the Internet or any other packet-switched network.

  • first dial

    first dial
    The first dial-up connection was made in 1965 by Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT with a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and Tom Marill with a Q-32 at SDC in California.

  • The first internet

    The first internet
    Internet was first connected in October, 1969, and was called ARPANET. The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1990 by a British (UK) scientist named Tim Berners-Lee. Today

  • The first email

    The first email
    The first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting beside each other. However, the ARPANET network was used as the connection between the two

  • first optics

    first optics
    Supported by multiple sources
    The U.S. government was one of the first big organizations to start using fiber optic cables when they utilized them to link a network of computers together in the NORAD headquarters in Colorado in 1975. Two years later, the first telephone communication system using fiber optic cables was created in Chicago. And fiber optics grew from there.

  • NSFNET

    NSFNET
    NSFNET is a wide-area network started by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It went online in 1986 and during the late 1980's and early 1990's was a crucial backbone to ARPANET and the Internet.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.

  • first router

    first router
    The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa; both were also based on PDP-11s.

  • DNS

    DNS
    The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities.

  • Development of HTML

    Development of HTML
    Tim Berners-Lee and HTML. Take a look at a screen shot of Berners-Lee's browser editor, which he developed in 1991-92. This was a true browser editor for the first version of HTML and ran on a NeXt workstation. Implemented in Objective-C, it, made it easy to create, view and edit web documents. The first version of HTML was formally published on June 1993.

  • Netscape and yahoo

    Netscape and yahoo
    The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had already taken three-quarters of the browser market.

  • DNS

    DNS
    Domain registration is the process of registering a domain name, which identifies one or more IP addresses with a name that is easier to remember and use in URLs to identify particular Web pages. The person or business that registers domain name is called the domain name registrant.