Internet

Internet History

By breezy1357

  • Satellite

    Satellite
    Soviet Union launched the world’s first man made satellite into orbit.

  • Introducing the Internet

    Introducing the Internet
    The UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) put out a press release introducing the public to the Internet.

  • IMP

    IMP
    The first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called "IMP" (Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    The first data moves from the UCLA host to the switch.

  • First Message

    First Message
    The first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA, after the second piece of network equipment was installed at SRI. The connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered the first Internet backbone.

  • Happy Birthday

    Happy Birthday
    Considered the official birthday of the Internet.

  • Google

    Google
    Google Goes Live

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia Was Launched

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook as a Harvard sophomore.

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.