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A scientist developed the concepts of computer-network and the ARPANET.
Lawrence G. Roberts (scientist), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -
Networks managed by interconnected Interface Message Processors evolving into routers
Wesley Clark -
Nodes were installed and the first message was ”LO” attempting to be “LOGIN” but the system crashed
Charles Kline, UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara and U of Utah -
Network emailing
Ray Tomlinson -
First Internet address registry- administers IP addresses and other Internet functions
Jon Pastel, Information Science Institute -
Ethernet Invented
Bob Metcalfe, Xerox Parc -
First International ARPAnet Link
UC of London via NORSAR (Norway) -
Yellow and White page serves developed/Domain naming schemes
Elizabeth Feinfer, SIR International’s Netwok Information Center -
The term “Internet” is coined
Vint Cerf Robert Kahn -
First Internet connection in Asia
Kilnam Chon, Keion University -
First email in Germany from the US in August
Werner Zorn -
First US research Education Network developed- support research and higher edu
Dr. Stephen Wolf, NSFNET -
World Wide Web is created
Time Berners-Lee, CERN, European Physical Laboratory -
First Internet Publishing System- first to index a lot of data and make it searchable (WAIS)
Brewster Kahle -
Gore Bill created and allocated $600 million for high performance computing, helps create the National Research and Educational Network.
Al Gore, White House, Congress -
World Wide Web is made available to the public for first time on Internet
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MP3 is developed. (extension file for audio format)
Brandenburg and team -
“Weblog” was coined
Jorn Barger/Peter Merholz -
Wikipedia
Larry Sanger / Jimmy Wales -
Social Networking was created as we know it today (Friendster)
Johnathan Abrams and Peter Chin
