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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush wrote an article about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called Memex, for memory extension. It could make and follow links between documents on microfiche -
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to USSR launching the Sputnik satellite -
Packet switching
Leonard Kleinrock published a paper about packet switching -
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Larry G. Roberts designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and created the first functioning long-distance computer network -
The first Text/Code editor was created
The first Text/Code editor was created -
Radio Waves
Engineers use radio waves to connect two computers together -
(TCP/IP)
ARPANET Created the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -
Larry Wall
Larry Wall creates Pear, a programming language for Web sites -
Welcome to the Web
Tim Berners-Lee develops a system called the World Wide Web -
The first connection
From Stanford University, Paul Kunz retrieves data from Tim Berners-Lee’s computer in Switzerland -
Surfing the Web
Number of Web hosts reaches 1,000,000 and Jean Armour Polly coins the phrase “Surfing the Web” -
Mosaic Web Browser
Marc Andreessen releases Mosaic, the first Graphic User Interface (GUI) for the internet. Eric Meyer begins working with the web and is a world renowned expert on HTML and CSS -
CSS is born
Marc Andreessen creates Netscape.
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Forms.
Hakon Wium Lie Proposes CSS to Tim Berners-Lee.
Yahoo was founded -
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is the first restaurant to be able to order from online -
Jeffery Zeldman, Java 1.0
Sun Microsystems Inc. releases Java 1.0.
Domain Registration is no longer free. HTML 2.0 Published.
Jeffery Zeldman becomes an innovator of Web Design -
The new era for Web design
Considered the “Beginning of a new era” for Web Design.
Browser wars erupt between Internet Explorer and Netscape ……… (Explorer wins).
Dave Raggett and Charlie Kindel create Scripting.
CSS is released Web safe colors grows to 256 -
HTML 3.2 / 4.0
HTML 3.2 was published followed by 4.0, by the W3C which would support CSS and Scripting -
Welcome Google
2 millionth domain is registered.
CSS 2 is released.
Google was founded -
Cyber War
1999 CSS 3 is released.
Backgrounds and Gradients become popular.
First large scale cyberwar between Serbia and Kosovo -
Napster
Napster was released, and sued
Over 1 billion Web pages indexed -
Blogging
Blogging becomes popular -
Al Qaeda recruits
Al Qaeda employs young code writers to design Web sites to use for recruitment and training -
YouTube, Myspace
Internets users reach 1 billion.
YouTube,
Myspace and
WordPress launches -
Twitter
tter was created Jack Dorsey sends out first tweet “just setting up my twttr” -
iPhone released
First iPhone released and Mobile Safari launches (first mobile browser) -
HTML5
HTML5 was published as a working draft.
Google Chrome launches.
Minimalistic design takes approach -
Responsive Sites
Responsive Web Sites take the design industry by storm -
Facebook reaches 1 billion
Facebook reaches 1 billion active members.
“Gangnam Style” is the first video on YouTube to reach 1 billion views -
Online backing blows up
51% of adults back online -
Happy Birthday
The internet’s 25th Birthday -
My Resources
http://www.w3.org/History.html
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-start2.htm Strickland, J. (n.d.). Early Networks. Retrieved July 17, 2015. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2576978/enterprise-applications/the-story-so-far.html
Betts, M. (2002, August 9). The Story So Far. Retrieved July 17, 2015. http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes, R. (2015). Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
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