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ARPANET http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network and was established in 1969. The ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the US Department of Defense initially funded the project that was also used by research labs and universities in the US during that time period. It was the world's first operational packet switching network and was designed by engineer Paul Baran and British scientist Donald Davies.
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Online Bulletin Boards http://www.blogcdn.com/downloadsquad.switched.com/media/2008/12/thumbtack.jpg
Bulletin boards were used as the first types of social networking in which people would just use a hobby. They were introduced in 1970 and were usually free of charge, however a few hosts started charging people to use them. As online bulletin boards used to be connected by residential phone lines, the people who used them usually lived in the same areas of different cities. They were only really used in the US -
E-Mail http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
Email is a form of electronic communication which can be used in all sorts of business. It can be used by anyone with an internet connection via free online mailing companies. Some businesses setup up their own network in which they also make there own Email system which no-one outside the business is able to use. Email is used in almost every retail or service business to send promotional mail like special offers, deals, discounts and other persuasive texts. -
International Packet Switched Service http://www.xtimeline.com/
Western Union, The UK Post Office and the USA's Tymnet headed to lead the project to create the IPSS (International Packet Switching Service) in 1978 which was also avaliable to use by 1981 in Hong Kong, Canada, USA, Australia and Europe. Accessable worldwide by the early '90's. People who wanted to use this service would use have to have a PSS line installed and the IPSS would be use by both regular people, companies and big corporations. It would also cost more for faster speeds of use. -
Miragration of ARPANET to TCP/IP Protocol Activated http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
The Department of Defense created the TCP/IP system in 1983 in order to connect lots of networks together which ultimately made the 'web' or the 'internet'. Lots of different systems were tests like; e-mails and messaging systems, remote logins and file transfers, all of which worked. The TCP and IP were developed seperately in order to create a full communication unit. The National Science Foundation in 1984 went to make the something called 'supercomputing' specifically for US research units. -
Introduction of Domain Name Address System http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/
(hosts).txt was the default domain before the Domain Name Address System was created. This was important in connecting other people to the web and therefore allowed different types of multimedia to be streamed online. Nowadays, most people and individuals use .org .net and .info and companies and corporation tend to use .com .net and .biz. .co.uk is the main domain name in the UK although some businesses are starting to use .com in the UK now. The .co.uk domain was originally the .com equivalent -
10,000 Internet Hosts http://us.123rf.com/
10,000 hosts were up and running by the time 1987 came around and this was unbelievebly before the world wide web was actually introduced. After that, the numbers continued to increase rapidly people were happy to have the ablility to get more money and more views. It was all good however until the sites became congested and more and more people were using it eventually making it slower. There were also shortages in domain names. -
First Web Brower Developed http://www.daha.net/
The first web browser was created by Tim Berners-Lee called WorldWideWeb consisting of no spaces which was changed later to Nexus. He wrote it on a NeXT Computer during the second half of 1990 whilst working at CERN and it was finished on December 25th, 1990 and was discontinued on January 14th, 1994. It took only 2 months on development. WorldWideWeb was released initially to the public by using Internet newsgroups in August 1991. -
First Commercial Dial-Up http://www.intelligentedu.com/
During the same year, the first commercial dial-up connection was introduced. It is accessed when it's connected to the phone line and cannot work without one. This was good because it gave the internet the opportunity to grow. In the present, only 1% of the world's population are using a dial-up connection as most people have moved onto broadband. -
First Internet Search Engines http://static.ddmcdn.com/
The first internet search engine was called Archie and it was originally written by in the second half of 1990 by Alan Emtage and J. Peter Deutsch but was then re-written McGill University and Concordia University. This worked by matching and listing filenames with the keywords searched for that the user searched for. It was useful because people who worked in business and other highly important roles were able to access specific files that they needed, when they needed it. -
World Wide Web (www) First Introduced http://cdn.marketingtechblog.com/
The ‘World Wide Web’ is usually abbreviated to ‘www’. It is a means way of connecting people throughout the world by using the internet, a way of communicating throughout the globe. It was first set up on the 6th of August 1991 by British inventor Tim Berners-Lee. He set it up because he wanted everybody to be able to connect with each other and be able to communicate with people if they wanted. -
1,000,000 Internet Hosts http://www.oecd.org/
By the time 1992 came by, the internet hosts statistics had risen to over 1 million hosts. This was a sign that the internet was becoming more and more popular and used more often throughout the world. The internet was mostly used in MEDC's (More Economically Developed Countries) rather than LEDC (Less Economically Developed Countries). -
NCSA Mosaic 1.0 - First Most Popular Browser http://www.glazman.org/
The first web browser to achieve the biggest popularity among the general public was NCSA's (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Mosaic 1.0. It was early in 1993 and ran on Windows, Unix, Macintosh and Amiga. Those systems were used by most people which was why the browser was so successful. -
Yahoo! Inc. http://i2.cdnds.net/
Yahoo! Inc. is a multinational American company and it's headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded it in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1st, 1995. They offer a wide range of services such as; Yahoo Answers, Finance, Mail, Directory, News, Advertising, Online Mapping, Fantasy Sports, Social Media and Video Sharing. -
Daily Use of the Word 'Internet' http://us.123rf.com/
On the 30th July 1996, it was announced that the word 'Internet' has become of daily use in the US and close to the point in the UK. After the launch of the www (World Wide Web), lots of domain names were taken and the word-of-mouth going around, this became one of the most popular words of its time period. This was mainly due to that fact that thousands and thousands of new people were having it installed every day and now, some people act like they can't live without it. -
Data Protection Act 1998 http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/
The Data Protection Act 1998 was introduced to the UK by the Government as part of the official Acts of Parliment. It was enacted to protect information and respect the processing of personal data by anyone unauthorised to do so. -
MSN Messenger (then Windows Live Messenger) http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/
MSN messenger is an instant messaging service for people to chat online with. You are able to have an on screen conversation through text when it was first released and then after a few years, you were able to use some MSN introduced called Video messaging in which users could see the people they were talking to and hear them too. You are able to send different file types also. It was anounced late 2012 that it would be retireing and users would have to transfer their information to Skype. -
DOT.com Bubble Burst http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on Friday, March 10, 2000, when the technology heavy NASDAQ Composite index, peaked at 5,048.62 (intra-day peak 5,132.52), more than double its value just a year before. http://futures.tradingcharts.com/historical/ND/1999/3/linewchart.html
This basically means this was the time when every .com domain was taken and they had to make new ones avalible as almost all new websites were using the .com domain rather than anything else like .co.uk or .org etc. -
Airbus as SAS http://www.arabiansupplychain.com/
In 2001 the transition from Airbus A300 to Airbus SAS happened and that means the fact that partner companies kept the production and engineering assets, it turned the Airbus Industrie into a sales and marketing company rather than just a metal production company. The transition to SAS was closely followed by a lot of development of the Airbus A380. -
Common Use of Broadband http://www.ccsleeds.co.uk/
Prior to the invention of home broadband, dial-up Internet access was the only means by which one could access the Internet and download files such as songs, movies, e-mails, etc. Dial-up Internet was also considered very inconvenient as it would impair the use of the home telephone line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband. The cable modem was actually introduced in 1997 but it didn't become a most common use of the internet until 2001. By 2004, the most average american households had it. -
Facebook Launched http://www.peelfashionstore.com/
Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerburg in 2004 and by October 2012 had over a massive 1 billion active users. Originally to be called TheFacebook as was revealed during the 2010 David Fincher Biopic, The Social Network, Facebook was created by Mr Zuckerburg and Harvard classmate Eduardo Saverin from his halls accommodation in Harvard University. The site allows people to add friend who they can then talk to amongst lots of other things such as video calls, voice calls and more. -
Twitter Launched http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
Twitter was launched in 2006 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Noah Glass,
Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, who is now the chairman and Dick Costolo who is now the CEO. As of July 2012, Twitter had a registered 500 million users although its thought to be becoming more popular then Facebook. Twitter allows people to tweet (similar to facebook's home feed) and also contact famous people and celebrities and almost everything has some connection to it -
Apple iPhone 1st Generation http://eshop.macsales.com/
This was Apple's first phone named simply as the Apple iPhone when it was released. It ws discontinued on July 11th 2008 after selling a total volume of 6,124,000. After, Apple have released 5 other models of the phone which were named; iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5 respectively and the slogan released on the iPhone 1 which was "This is only the beginning" was evidently proven with later models. This was the first mainstream touchscreen product Apple Inc. -
Apple's iOS App Store Launch http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/
Apple iOS Store opened on the internet officially on the 10th of July 2008, noting that it was after the orginal iPhone had been released and discontinued. It was created to make it easier for customers to download applications and games to their Apple devices and now offically has more than 800,000 apps on it's store and has sold/had over 40 million app downloads as of January 2013 since its release. -
Web 2.0: The Present (Started 1999) http://upload.wikimedia.org/
The term Web 2.0 was coined in 1999 to describe web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier web sites. It is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference which was held in late 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web 2.0 basically means a new era or a new generation of the way we use the internet, we can be used, what devices can be connected by it and what effects this had on global and economical situations.
