History of the Internet - Mark Yacoub - 3rd Period

By Mark Yacoub
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    History of the Internet

  • Birth of the ARPANET

    Birth of the ARPANET
    During the time of the Cold War, as most US governmental officials trembled in fear, the US defense department created the ARPANET which was used to communicate information between US governmental personnel. Got to spy on them Russians!

  • The first Email

    The first Email
    Using the ARPANET, Ray Tomlinson invented and developed electronic mail, as we know it today, by creating ARPANET's networked email system, sending the first ever Email.

  • The Birth of the Internet

    The Birth of the Internet
    A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). This allowed different kinds of computers on different networks to "talk" to each other. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by a universal language.

  • Start of the DNS

    Start of the DNS
    Paul Mockapetris expanded the Internet beyond its academic origins by inventing the Domain Name System (DNS)

  • The launch of AOL

    The launch of AOL
    Being an online service provider that opened the door to consumer internet. AOL provided an easy-to-access online platform that introduced millions of users to the internet for the first time.

  • Start of IRC

    Start of IRC
    Jarkko Oikarinen, a Finnish computer scientist, created the IRC for group communication in discussion forums, private messaging, data transfer, and file sharing among users in different locations. IRC presented the concept of channels or virtual chat rooms where users join and participate in group discussions.

  • First commercial dial-up ISP

    First commercial dial-up ISP
    Established by Joel Furr, it started by providing direct connection to the internet for businesses and home users in the San Francisco Bay Area. Until that time the internet was predominantly used by military, research, and educational institutions and businesses. The World gave individual users access to the internet.

  • First Search Engine

    First Search Engine
    Alan Emtage from Monreal, Canada, developed the first search engine, Archie. Unlike current search engines that use crawling and indexing web pages, Archie created an index of files on FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites. Archie would periodically scan FTP servers and create searchable databases of file names and metadata. Users would then search for specific files by their names or keywords.

  • Unveiling of the World Wide Web

    Unveiling of the World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), proposed creating a networked hypertext system to navigate and link documents stored on different CERN’s computers. His proposal outlined the key components and design principles of the World Wide Web.

  • First Secure Ecommerce Transaction

    First Secure Ecommerce Transaction
    A man named Phil Brandenberger from Philadelphia used the Netscape Navigator web browser to buy a CD from the NetMarket website, an online retailer founded by Daniel Kohn. The CD was Sting’s album “Ten Summoner’s Tales” and cost $12.48 plus $4.95 shipping.

  • First Social Media Platform

    First Social Media Platform
    By Andrew Weinreich, Six Degrees was the first social media platform to offer popular features like customizable profiles, friends lists, school affiliations, and messaging. It lets you browse other users’ profiles, and join groups and forums.

  • The First Wi-Fi

    The First Wi-Fi
    A team of engineers and researchers at the NCR Corporation, led by Vic Hayes, developed the first wireless local area network (WLAN) standard — the IEEE 802.11. This standard defined the protocols and specifications for wireless communication and provided a framework for the development of Wi-Fi technology.

  • Creation of Google

    Creation of Google
    Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University, created the Google search engine. As students, they collaborated on a research project that aimed at analyzing and organizing the immense amount of information on the web. This project grew to become the popular web browser we all adore today, Google.

  • Birth of the iPhone

    Birth of the iPhone
    The iPhone introduced a user-friendly multi-touch interface which instantly popularized touchscreen smartphones and encouraged competitors to develop similar devices. Further also introduced a powerful web browser, Safari, that allowed users to access and browse the internet on their mobile devices, changing the limited and cumbersome browsing experience to a desktop-like one. It is revolutionary.

  • Global Start of 5G

    Global Start of 5G
    5G was developed in the 3GPP standardisation body. 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide, becoming the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones.