History of the Internet

Invention of modem

Jul 10, 1958

Researchers of Bell Labs invented a modem that changes digital signals to electrical signals and back.

ARPA

Oct 13, 1958

United States government creates Advanced Research Projects Agency

Idea of network of computers

Apr 7, 1962

Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to lead the work to develop it.

ASCII Is Developed

Feb 5, 1963

American Standard Code for Information Exchange is developed. ASCII lets you to share data between two computers of different maufacturers

First wide area network

Feb 4, 1965

Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Marill gets a contract to create the first wide-area network connection through long distant dial-up between a computer in Massachusetts and a computer in California.

First person to use the internet

Apr 10, 1969

Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN.

First major internet connection

Apr 10, 1969

The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which connected four major universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah).

More universities connected

Jan 8, 1971

January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added.

Network Email

Feb 5, 1972

Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. The Internetworking Working Group forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.

MIcrosoft

Mar 12, 1972

Paul Allen and Bill Gates created a businees ro share thier intrests in camputers and to introduct their products to the public.The company was first called Traf-O-Data.

Ethernet

May 7, 1974

Harvard student Bob Metcalfe's dissertation on "Packet Networks.", which is supposed to be a protocol for multiple local network. The dissertation was initially rejected by the University for not being analytical enough. It later won acceptance when he added some more equations to it.

Because its time network

Feb 5, 1981

BENET connected IBM mainframes to educationaly communities and the world to create a mailing service.

"Internet"

Feb 5, 1982

The word "internet" was used for the first time.

Internet Worm

Feb 5, 1988

A virus called internet worm shuts down approxmately 10% of the world's internet.

First friendly internet

Apr 11, 1991

The first really friendly interface to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota.

Yahoo

Jan 12, 1994

Yahoo was created in Stanford University on January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.

Google

Feb 5, 1998

Google open its first Hq in California.

Wikipedia

Feb 5, 2001

Wikipedia was created. Wikipedia is an online websites that allows people to post information about a specific topic.

Facebook

Jan 31, 2004

Facebook is a social network service that lets you chat and veiw other socil medias.

Youtube

Feb 10, 2005

Youtube was a video sharing site created by three formed paypal employees. On November 2006 its was bought by google for 1.56 billion US dollors.