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Mark Twain penned "From the London Times in 1904"
He predicted a future in which all the phone lines were connected and the daily doing of the globe could be seen and share by everyone across oceans using what Wayne called eight electroscope.
The story's protagonist caled up different corners of the world to look at life studying strange sites and communicate with other but it wasn't exactly Twain's best work and the story was largely forgotten -
In August JCR Licklider proposed a similar idea of computers that can talk to one another
As director of the USA Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA Licklider's memos about an intergalactic computer network explained much of how today's internet now functions including cloud computing. -
The first message was sent from one computer to another over ARPANET,
The communication from UCLA to Stanford was meant to say login but only the lo made it through before the system crashed -
Ray Tominson set the first email
He also introduced the @ different networks were tested during the decade at research centers in the UK, USA and Norway -
ARPANET was officially migrated to TCP IP or Internet Protocol
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Internet protocol was the standard for all militar computer technology
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Tim Berners Lee created the world wide web
An information management system accessible to anyone with a connection, in only 40 years the internet developed from a system that could barely send two letters into a network that could return millions of search results containing billions of words in two seconds -
A Pizza Hut Pizza was purchased on the net