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Bell Labs Invents Modem

Feb 10, 1958

Bell Labs researchers invent the modem (modulator - demodulator), which converts digital signals to electrical (analog) signals and back.

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Period: Feb 10, 1958 to Feb 10, 2015

ASCII Is Developed

Feb 10, 1963

The first universal standard for computers, ASCII is developed by a joint industry-government committee. ASCII permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.

Lawrence Roberts & Thomas Marill Create First Wide-area Network

Feb 10, 1965

Lawrence Roberts (MIT) and Thomas Marill get an ARPA contract to create the first wide-area network (WAN) connection via long distant dial-up between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in California. The system confirms that packet switching offers the most promising model for communication between computers.

Lawrence Roberts Leads Networking Experiment

Feb 10, 1966

Building on the 1965 “Cooperative Network of Time-sharing Computers” study, MIT’s Lawrence Roberts comes to ARPA to conduct the networking experiment and develop the first ARPAnet plan ("Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers")

Danny Cohen Develops First Real-time Visual Flight Simulator

Feb 10, 1967

Danny Cohen develops the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer and the first real-time radar simulator. His flight simulator work leads to the development of the Cohen-Sutherland computer graphics line clipping algorithms, created with Ivan Sutherland.

ARPAnet’s Structural Proposal Written

Feb 10, 1969

Dr. Howard Frank co-writes the proposal that wins the contract to design the network structure for the ARPAnet.

IMP Network Links First Four Nodes

Feb 10, 1969

The physical Interface Message Processor (IMP) network is constructed, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah.

UCLA Team Sends First Data Packets

Feb 10, 1969

The first data packets are sent between networked computers on October 29th by Charley Kline at UCLA, under supervision of Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The first attempt resulted in the system crashing as the letter G of “Login” was entered. The second attempt was successful.

Ray Tomlinson Invents Email

Feb 10, 1972

Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. The "@" sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails, making "user@host" the email standard.

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Feb 10, 1973

Faced with the "good fortune to be the first person in the world to be given the problem of connecting a roomful of computers," Bob Metcalfe co-invented the Ethernet at Xerox Parc. - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.YRvCAC4Y.dpuf

Visual Simulator Runs Over ARPAnet

Feb 11, 1981

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineDanny Cohen adapts the visual simulator to run over the ARPAnet, the first application of packet- switching networks to real-time applications.

Tim Berners-Lee Creates WWW

Feb 11, 1989

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineAt 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. Later, Cailliau develops, along with Nicola Pellow, the first web browser for the Mac OS operating system.

Linus Torvalds Creates Linux

Feb 11, 1990

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineLinus Torvalds creates Linux and becomes a leading supporter of Open Source software.

World Wide Web Opens to Public

Feb 11, 1991

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineThe World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet.

NCSA Releases Mosaic Browser

Feb 11, 1993

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineMark Andreessen and Eric Bina create the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), which helps popularize the World Wide Web among the general public.

MP3 Is Developed

Feb 11, 1995

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineBrandenburg and his team settle on a file extension for the audio format, shortening MPEG1, Layer 3 to MP3.

Blogs First Appear

Feb 11, 1998

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineThe advent of web publishing tools available to non-technical users spurs the rise of blogs.

Aaron Swartz Co-Creates RSS

Feb 11, 2000

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineAaron Swartz co-creates RSS, a program that collects news from various web pages and puts them in one place for readers, with the goal of making information freely available to everyone

Pun Connects Nepal

Feb 11, 2002

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineMahabir Pun, with the help of volunteers from the US and Europe, connects the first village in Nepal to the Internet using long range wireless links built from homemade antennas. This is the beginning of the Nepal Wireless Network, which has since connected 175 villages to the Internet.

Royal Wedding Is Biggest Internet Event; UCLA Opens Internet History Center - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.Cri5pVZP.dpuf

Feb 11, 2011

http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timelineLive streaming of Will and Kate’s wedding is the biggest event ever watched on the Internet, and UCLA, where the first ARPAnet node was built, opens its Internet History Center. - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.Cri5pVZP.dpuf