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Creation of the Turing machine
A tool capable of processing symbols is formulated on a tape according to a defined table of rules. With this, the bases for the creation of specialized programs for the development of mathematical calculations are given. -
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1936-1950
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Beginnings of the second world war
Starts a global military conflict in Europe and part of Asia. Thanks to this, different powers such as the United States, Great Britain and France begin to develop different communication technologies that later influence the development of the Internet. -
Advances in computer security
By 1942, Americans began to use the methods and machines that used the principles of modern encryption. In this, it was sought that all communication that was transmitted by radio was also accessible to the adversary. With this, advanced communication tools are created, which facilitates the connection between different soldiers -
Beginning of the cold war
The United States (capitalist bloc) and the Soviet Union (communist bloc) begin a political, economic, social and informational war to exercise dominance and influence around the world, with a view to obtaining allies. -
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Internet development
The first interconnection technologies will be developed, which will help to decipher, distribute, access, record, collect and systematize a variety of information and share them in an easy and instantaneous way. -
Roots of the internet
The need for the United States to create an exclusively military information network allowed the generation of a military project that will help access the information necessary to respond to the aggression from anywhere in the country. There ARPANET arises -
Creation of open and public networks
By 1972, the military functions of the ARPANET project were transferred to MILNET, which was created by the USA to design a new network, for academic and scientific purposes. In this, the National Science Foundation was founded, which contributed to the creation of new free access networks, later to NSFNET, thus originating what is currently connected to the Internet -
Formality to cyberspace
In 1985, the internet was a technology that already existed, although it was little known. However, for that same year, a formality was made to an academic concept: cyberspace, formulated by William Gibson, who developed video games as a way to make explicit the way in which realities can be simulated. Even so, over time the term became known as the internet. -
Creating the Mosaic Browser
In 1993, Marc Andreesen created the Mosaic browser, which helps access a variety of information using the World Wide Web (WWW). With this, it was possible to create graphical interfaces to manage a network and create a Netscape program. From there, the Internet becomes a communication network, since it facilitates remote access to other machines (SSH and telnet among others), file transfers (FTP), email (SMTP), online conversations, etc.