Internet (21st Century Technology)

By LarenTsosie

  • Video Game

    Video Games
    For the Westinghouse display at the World's Fair, Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the traditional game Nim in which players try to avoid picking up the last matchstick. Tens of thousands of people play it, and the computer wins at least 90% of the games.

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

    Sputnik
    USSR launches into and, with it, global communications.

  • Bell Labs Invents Modem

    ModemBell Labs researcheer invent the modem which converts digital signals to electrical signals and back, enabling communication between computers.

  • DARPA

    DARPA
    DARPA was created in 1958 as the Advanced Reserch Projects Agency (ARPA)

  • Leonard Kleinrock Pioneers Packet Switching.

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock pioneers the packet-switching concept in his Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis about queueing theory: Information Flow in Large Communication Nets. - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.rExRylfT.dpuf

  • J.C.R Licklider concieves intergalactic network

    Intergalactic Network
    J.C.R. Licklider writes memos about his Intergalactic Network concept of networked computers and becomes the first head of the computer research program at ARPA. - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.rExRylfT.dpuf

  • ASCII Is Developed

    ASCII
    The first universal standard for computers, ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) is developed by a joint industry-government committee. ASCII permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.

  • Paul Baran, Donald Davies Develop Message Blocks/Packet-switching

    Message Blocks
    The Rand Corporation's Paul Baran develops message blocks in the U.S., while Donald Watts Davies, at the National Physical Laboratory in Britain, simultaneously creates a similar technology called packet-switching. The technology revolutionizes data communications. - See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline#sthash.rExRylfT.dpuf

  • ARPA Sponsors Networking Study

    ARPA
    ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers."

  • First Wide-area Network

    First Wide-area Network
    Lawrence Roberts (MIT) and Thomas Marill get an ARPA contract to create the first wide-area network (WAN) connection via long distant dial-up between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in California. The system confirms that packet switching offers the most promising model for communication between computers.

  • Computer Networking Experiment

    Computer Networking ExperimentAs ARPA director, Charles Herzfeld approves funding to develop a networking experiment that would tie together multiple universities funded by the agency.

  • ARPAnet Project Initiated

    ARPAnetDirecting ARPA’s computer research program, Robert Taylor initiates the ARPAnet project, the foundation for today’s Internet.

  • First Realtime Visual Flight Simulator

    Flight Simulator
    Danny Cohen develops the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer and the first real-time radar simulator.

  • Laptops

    Laptops
    In the 1970s, Alan Kay of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center had a vision for a wireless portable computer roughly the size of a notebook. He called it the Dynabook.

  • Ray Tomlinson Invents Email

    Email
    Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. The "@" sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails, making "user@host" the email standard.

  • "Internet"

    Internet
    Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection" which specifies in detail the design of a Transmission Control Program (TCP) and coins the term “Internet” for the first time.

  • Asia Has Internet

    Asia Internet
    Kilnam Chon, a Professor at Keio University in Japan, develops the first Internet connection in Asia, called SDN, and his pioneering work inspires others to promote the Internet’s regional growth.

  • Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows
    Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows November 10, 1983

  • iPods

    iPods
    iPods were introduced by Apple in 2001, which made a huge hit in MP3 capacity up to 1,000 songs and escalated as more versions were made.

  • CERN and TCP/IP

    Ben Segal
    Ben Segal convinces CERN that TCP/IP is the key to making the Internet functional.