History of the Internet

By TehBrownKid

  • The First Computer Invented

    The First Computer Invented
    On February 15, 1946 the first computer was created. ENIAC was the first electric general purpose computer.Through programing it was able ot solve a large number of numerical problems.

  • The Launch of Sputnik

    The Launch of Sputnik
    On October 4, 1957 the Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit. The Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. This was created by the Russians during cold war and pushed America to do the same.

  • ASCII Is Developed

    ASCII Is Developed
    ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. and was developed in 1963. This allowed computers to understand characters such as 'a' and '@' etc.

  • Arpanet was Invented

    Arpanet was Invented
    Arpanet stands for The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network and was created on October 29 1969.It implemented the protocol suite TCP/IP.

  • First U.S. Research Network Developed

    First U.S. Research Network Developed
    In 1985, Dr. Stephen Wolff leads the development of NSFNET. This is the first U.S. open computer network supporting research and higher education.

  • Robert Tappan Morris Creates the Internet Worm

    Robert Tappan Morris Creates the Internet Worm
    On November 2, 1988 Robert Tappan Morris created the internet worm. An internet worm is a program that spreads across the internet by replicating itself on computers via their network connections (Mike Barwise)

  • The World Wide Web was invented

    The World Wide Web was invented
    In 1989 the World Wide Web was created. WWW is an open source inforamtion space web resources are identified by URLs.

  • First Web Browser is Written

    First Web Browser is Written

  • First Web page was created

    First Web page was created
    In 1991 the first web page was created. It looks super sketchy.

  • First Internet Browser

    First Internet Browser
    On January 23, 1993 Mosaic was created. It is currently discontinued. It was created by MCSA. The platforms were AmigaOS, Mac OS, Unix, and Windows

  • Yahoo was Founded

    Yahoo was Founded
    On March 2, 1995 Yahoo was founded. Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered. It is known for its search engine Yahoo.

  • Google was Founded

    On September 4, 1998 Google was founded. Google is now an American multinational technology company that specializing in Internet-related services.

  • First Full Internet Service on Mobile Phones

    First Full Internet Service on Mobile Phones
    The first full internet service on mobile phones was introduced by NTT DoCoMo in Japan in 1999.

  • Nii Quaynor Brings Internet to Africa

    Nii Quaynor Brings Internet to Africa
    On February 4, 2000 Nii Quaynor brought Internet to Africa. Nii Quaynor is also known as the African father of the Internet.

  • Wikipedia was Created

    Wikipedia was Created
    Wikipedia was ceated on January 21, 2001. Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

  • Facebook was Created

    Facebook was Created
    On February 4, 2004 Facebook was created. Facebookis an online social networking service.

  • Internet Society Founds Internet Hall of Fame

    Internet Society Founds Internet Hall of Fame
    The internet Hall of Fame was created in 2012. The internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society.