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History Of The Internet

By 08amgraham

  • 1969: Unix

    Another major milestone during the 60′s was the inception of Unix: the operating system whose design heavily influenced that of Linux and FreeBSD (the operating systems most popular in today’s web servers/web hosting services).

  • ARPAnet

    The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. ARPANET is the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. 9http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/home/internet_timeline)

  • 1971: Email

    Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name)

  • ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email.

    Arpanet is began to be used for commercial emailing

  • The term “Internet” begins to be used.

    Title says it all -_-

  • 1974: The beginning of TCP/IP

    1974 was a breakthrough year. A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP).

  • Comet offerd to ammerica for $40,000

    Comet, the first commercial email software, is offered by the Computer Corporation of America for $40,000.

  • 1977: The PC modem

    1977 was a big year for the development of the Internet as we know it today. It’s the year the first PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.

  • 1979: MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games

    The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.

  • The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee.

    • The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee.

  • 1982: The first emoticon

    While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. The modern emoticon was born.

  • 1984: Domain Name System (DNS)

    The domain name system was created in 1984 along with the first Domain Name Servers (DNS). The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically.

  • Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the Internet.

    Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the Internet.