Internet History

ARPANET is proposed

Apr 1, 1962

ARPANET is proposed by J.C.R. Licklider. He has the idea of a "galactic network" of computers that could "talk" to one another.

First two computers are conected cross country

Jan 1, 1965

Lawrence G. Roberts and Thomas Merrill connect TX-2 in Massachussetes and to the Q-32 in California.

ARPANET released

Oct 29, 1969

The first message is succesfully sent through ARPANET.

EMail is created

Sep 17, 1972

Ray Tomlinson working for BBN creates the first program devoted to emails

ARPA changes name

Dec 17, 1972

ARPA becomes DARPA

Internet gets a name

Sep 17, 1974

Kahn and Cerf to the system as Internet for the first time

Ethernet comes into play

Sep 17, 1976

Ethernet is created by Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe.

AT&T Bell Labs creation

Sep 17, 1976

AT& T Bell Labs develops UUCP and UNIX

T1 lines

Sep 17, 1984

MCI creates T1 lines to allow for faster transportation of information over the internet.

ARPANET goes bye bye

Sep 17, 1989

ARPANET seizes to exist

First search

Sep 17, 1990

The first search engine is launched "Archie"

"WWW"

Aug 6, 1991

The World Wide WEb is released

Web browser

Sep 17, 1993

Mosaic is released as the first search engine. Later changed to Netscape!

First phone with data

Sep 17, 1996

Nokia releases fist phone with internet access

Life is standardized

Sep 17, 1999

A wireless technology called 802.11b, more commonly referred to as Wi-Fi, is standardized.

Cat videos

Sep 24, 2005

YouTube is created.