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history of the internet
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(ARPANET) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network -
1970s - Newsgroups, bulletin boards
Starting in the late 1970s, newsgroups were message boards for Unix technical issues.
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is an online service based on microcomputers running appropriate software -
1971 - EMAIL
Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet. -
1978 - International packet switched service
The International Packet Switched Service (IPSS) was created in 1978 by a collaboration between the United Kingdom's General Post Office, Western Union International and the United States' Tymnet -
1983 - TCP/IP protocol, National Science Foundation (NSF)
The name "TCP/IP" refers to an entire suite of data communications protocols also National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering -
1984 - Domain name addressing system
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network -
1987 - 10,000 hosts
One of the remarkable features of the development of the Internet has been the rate at which new hosts have been connecting to it in 1987 - 10,000 hosts connected -
1990 - First commercial dialup
First commercial dialup -
1990 - Search engines
Search engines -
1991 - World Wide Web, CERN
1 World Wide Web, CERN -
1993 - First widely used browser (Mosaic)
First widely used browser (Mosaic) -
1996 - Word ‘Internet’ in daily use
Word ‘Internet’ in daily use -
1997 - 10 million users
10 million users -
2000 - Dotcom bubble burst
Dotcom bubble burst -
Now – Web 2.0
Web 2.0
