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USSR launches Sputnik
The first artificial earth satellite has been launched into space. The US also forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) -
First ARPANET plan
Lawrence G. Roberts created this plan. MIT: "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers" -
First design paper on ARPANET and first meeting of three packet network teams
The first design paper of ARPANET was published by Larry Roberts. First meeting of the three independent packet network teams were RAND, NPL and ARPA -
ARPANET researched into networking
ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking -
Nodes are stood up as BBN and mini computer
Node 1: UCLA
Function: Network Measurement Center
System,OS: SDS SIGMA 7, SEX
Diagram of the first host to IMP connection Node 2: Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Network Information Center (NIC)
SDS940/Genie
Doug Engelbart's project on "Augmentation of Human Intellect" Node 3: University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics
IBM 360/75, OS/MVT Node 4: University of Utah
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Birth of Internet
ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking -
People communicate over a network
15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET.
E-mail invented -- a program to send messages across a distributed network.
E-mail is still the main way of inter-person communication on the Internet today. -
E-mail takes off, Internet becomes a reality
Number of hosts breaks 100.
THEORYNET provides electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally developed E-mail system and TELENET for access to server).
Mail specification
First demonstration of ARPANET/Packet Radio Net/SATNET operation of Internet protocols over gateways. -
Computers can connect more freely and easily
First public demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines.
Internetworking Working Group (INWG) created to address need for establishing agreed upon protocols. -
ARPA studys
the study shows how email composing 75% of all ARPANET traffic -
Networking comes to many
Queen Elizabeth sends out an e-mail.
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with UNIX. -
Growth of Internet
Number of hosts breaks 1,000.
Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced. -
Growth in Internet
Number of hosts breaks 100,000
First relays between a commercial electronic mail carrier and the Internet
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) comes into existence under the IAB -
Friendly User Interface to WWW established
Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the U of Minnesota. -
The WWW Revolution truly begins
Number of Hosts 2 Million. 600 WWW sites.
InterNIC created by NSF to provide specific Internet services
directory and database services
registration services
information services
Business and Media really take notice of the Internet.
US White House and United Nations (UN) comes on-line.
Mosaic takes the Internet by storm. -
Microsoft enter
12.8 Million Hosts, 0.5 Million WWW Sites.
Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology (which has been around for years)
The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions -
internet is huge
19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups. -
Facebook
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerburg -
Twitter
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey -
Instagram
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
