The Evolution of the World Wide Web

ARPA and Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, making the US president Dwight Eisenhower to make the ARPA in an attempt to regain the lead in technology.

Leonard Kleinrock

Jan 1, 1961

A professor of computer science at UCLA, whose name is Leonard Kleinrock, wrote the first paper on packet-switching

Communication Nets

Apr 1, 1962

Len Kleinrock describes the packet switching network in the Communication Nets, which is used for ARPAnet

Packet-Switching

Oct 1, 1965

First Network Experiment. Two computers talked to each other using the packet-switching technology.

ARPA

Dec 1, 1966

ARPA project begins with the chief scientist being Larry Roberts.

ARPANet Contract

Dec 1, 1968

ARPANet contract was given to Bolt, Newman, and Beranek (BBN- an american high technology company) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1st ARPANet Node

Sep 1, 1969

First ARPANet node (node - connection point) installed at UCLA Newtwork Measurement Center.

2nd Node

Oct 1, 1969

Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute. The first ARPANet message sent was "lo", an attempt to spell log-in, but the system had crashed.

3rd node

Nov 1, 1969

The third node was installed at the University of California, Sant Barbara. Connected to IBM (IBM - short for International Business Machines)

4th node

Dec 1, 1969

The fourth node was installed at the University of Utah. Connected to DEC. (DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation)

5th node

Mar 1, 1970

The fifth node was installed at BBN

@

Mar 1, 1972

"@" is the sign chosen for "at"

Apple

Jan 1, 1976

The first Apple computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Tim Berners-Lee

Jan 1, 1980

Tim Berners-Lee writes the program called "Enqire Within," the predecessor to the Wordld Wide Web

McAfee

Jan 1, 1989

McAfee founded; anti-virus software was available for free.

RIP ARPANet

Feb 13, 1990

ARPANet ends, Tim Berners-Lee then created the World Wide Web.

Websites

Oct 13, 2006

Estimated 92 million Web sites online.