Brief History of the Internet

History of the Internet

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 2010

Sputnik

Dec 17, 1954

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) launched the first artificial earth satellite in 1957. It was named Sputnik.

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

Explorer 1 became first U.S. satellite to orbit the earth

Creation of the Microchip

May 1, 1958

The Microchip was created in the year of 1958

Advanced Research Project Agency

Sep 13, 1958

ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) was a group formed by the government to research space and advance in technology.

Video Games!

Sep 17, 1962

First computer game was created called SpaceWar

Floppy Disk

Sep 17, 1967

Invention of the Floppy Disk was during the year of 1967

First Email Message

Oct 29, 1969

First message was sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute

Email

Sep 17, 1971

Ray Tomlinson invents an email program.

Altair 8800

Sep 17, 1975

The first commercially available popular personal computer, the Altair 8800 is introduced as a kit.

Apple Computer

Sep 17, 1976

Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Apple II

Sep 17, 1978

The first mass-marketed personal computer, the Apple II, is launched

NSF computer science

Sep 17, 1981

The National Science Foundation (NSF) developed computer science.

PhoneNet

Sep 17, 1982

Computer scientists built the PhoneNet system and established Internet connections between the PhoneNet system, the ARPANET, and the first network, Telenet.

Domain Name System

Sep 17, 1984

Paul Mockapetris designed the Domain Name System at UC Irvine and was refined in 1984 by four UC Berkeley students. (Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou)

NSFNET

Sep 17, 1985

NSFNET, a "backbone" to connect five supercomputer centers located all over the United States, allowed the establishment of regional networks around the country, making a brighter, more-connected future possible for more people.

Intel

Sep 17, 1993

The Pentium processor is developed by Intel.

Windows 95

Sep 17, 1994

Microsoft takes technology from spyglass to make Windows 95

JAVA

Sep 17, 1995

JAVA (programming language) is introduced

Estimated size of the Internet

Sep 17, 2000

The size of the world wide web is estimated to exceed 1 billion pages.

Web2.0

Sep 17, 2002

Web 2.0 is made

Results of Web2.0

Sep 17, 2010

2001-Wikipedia was launched
2003- Myspace was launched
2004- Facebook was launched
2005- YouTube launches
2006- Twitter was created
2007- Tumblr was found
2010- Instagram was found