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1969: Arpanet
Arpanet was the first actual network to run on the packet switching technology (this was new at the time). On October 29, 1969 computers at Stanford and UCLA were connected for the first time ever. The first message sent across this network was supposed to be "Login", but reportedly, the link between the two colleges crashed on the letter "g". -
1969: Unix
Unix: This operating system design heavily influenced that of Linux and FreeBSD (the operating systems most popular in today’s web servers/web hosting services). -
1970: Arpanet network
Arpanet network was established between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (This company created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970. -
1971: Email
Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name). -
1971: Project Gutenberg and eBooks
One of the most impressive developments of 1971 was the start of Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, is a global effort to make books /documents in the public domain available electronically–for free–in a variety of eBook and electronic formats. Michael Hart gained access to a large block of computing time and realized that the future of computers wasn’t in computing itself, but in the storage, retrieval and searching of information that, at the time, was only contained in libraries. He manua -
1972: CYCLADES
France began to create its own Arpanet-like the project in 1972, called CYCLADES. Cyclades was eventually shut down, it did bring a key idea: the host computer should be responsible for data transmission rather than the network . -
1973: The first trans-Atlantic connection and the popularity of emailing
Arpanet had made its first trans-Atlantic connection in 1973, with the University College of London. the That same year, email accounted for 75% of all Arpanet network activity. -
1974: The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a "inter-network", which then would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (Eventually then became TCP/IP). -
1975: The email client
With emailing being popular, the first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California in 1975. The biggest technological advance this program (called MSG) made was the addition of "Reply" and "Forward" ability. -
1977: The PC modem
1977 wad the big year for the development of the Internet as we know it today. That year the first PC modem, that was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
1978: The Bulletin Board System (BBS)
The first bulletin board system was developed during a blizzard in Chicago in.
