Evolution of internet

By Perkins Merzier

  • The first ever wide area network

    The first ever wide area network was created by the U.S. Air Force to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system. An enormous network of dedicated phone lines, telephones, and modems linked the sites together

  • The creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the ARPA in 1958 in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

  • The modem is created

    In 1962, the first commercial modem created by Dennis C. Hayes was manufactured and sold as the Bell 103 by AT&T. The Bell 103 was also the first modem with full-duplex transmission, frequency-shift keying or FSK, and had a speed of 300 bits per second or 300 bauds

  • the packet switching concept is made

    Leonard Kleinrock, (born June 13, 1934, New York City), American computer scientist who developed the mathematical theory behind packet switching and who sent the first message between two computers on a network that was a precursor of the Internet

  • The first computer virus

    the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN. Creeper was actually designed as a security test to see if a self-replicating program was possible

  • Apple is founded

    Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers

  • the first personal computer

    IBM's own Personal Computer (IBM 5150) was introduced in August 1981, only a year after corporate executives gave the go-ahead to Bill Lowe, the lab director in the company's Boca Raton, Fla., facilities

  • Emoticons first ever use :-)

    The word emoticon comes from a combination of the words emotion and icon. Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982

  • The internet is born

    ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there, researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web

  • The Morris worm

    on November 2, 1988, a maliciously clever program was unleashed on the Internet from a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This cyber worm was soon propagating at remarkable speed and grinding computers to a halt

  • the world-wide-web's first introduction

    Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world

  • the michealangelo virus

    The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level

  • The mosaic web browser is created

    Marc Andreessen announced the project's first release, the "alpha/beta version 0.5," on January 23, 1993. Version 1.0 was released on April 21, 1993. Ports to Microsoft Windows and Macintosh were released in September. A port of Mosaic to the Amiga was available by October 1993.

  • Yahoo is founded

    Yahoo was founded by Stanford University engineering students, Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994

  • Amazon & ebay are founded

    Amazon was founded on July 5 1994 while eBay was founded on September 3 1995

  • Internet explorer is launched

    On August 16, 1995 Internet Explorer was launched by Thomas Reardon to become Microsoft's first web browser forever changing the course of the company

  • AOL launches

    AOL releases AIM as a standalone program for Windows. May 2006: AIM Pages is introduced, and then shuts down in 2007

  • Google is founded

    founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc.

  • Apple launches safari and itunes

    Safari was released on January 7 2003 on iTunes on January 9, 2001

  • the first mobile virus was found

    In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the Symbian 60 OS.

  • Facebook is created

    Facebook, initially titled facebook.com and limited to Harvard students, launched on Feb. 4, 2004. In 2006, Facebook became open to the general public. Mark Zuckerberg along with fellow Harvard mates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes founded Facebook

  • Youtube is created

    YouTube is an American online video-sharing and social media platform it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim

  • Apple launches the iPhone

    the iPhone was launched on June 29, 2007

  • Instagram & Pintrest are launched

    Pinterest and Instagram have taken the American market by the horns since 2010

  • Skype is bought

    skype is an online video-calling platform that was bought by Microsoft