INTERNET: How the Internet Started

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  • Arpanet Network Launched

    Arpanet Network Launched
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

  • First email sent over Arpanet

    First email sent over Arpanet
    Ray Tomlinson, of BBN, sent the first message across the network in 1971, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine. He sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 computer to another PDP-10.

  • Early Versions of TCP/IP Protocols Developed

    Early Versions of TCP/IP Protocols Developed
    IP was the connectionless datagram service in the original Transmission Control Program introduced by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974, which was complemented by a connection-oriented service that became the basis for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

  • First personal computer modem connected

    First personal computer modem connected
    The first personal computer modem, the Hayes 80-130A, was designed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington. The device allowed computer users to connect directly to their phone lines to create a personal network, something never experienced before.

  • Domain Name System (DNS) established

    Domain Name System (DNS) established
    basically a lookup translation table converting machine readable IP addresses into human understandable names. Locating a website by its name www.example.com rather than entering 123.23.

  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formed to manage standards

    Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formed to manage standards
    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).[3] It has no formal membership roster or requirements and all its participants are volunteers. Their work is usually funded by employers or other sponsors.

  • Internet grew to 30,000 servers

    The invention of DNS, the common use of TCP/IP and the popularity of email caused an explosion of activity on the internet. Between 1986 and 1987, the network grew from 2,000 hosts to 30,000. People were now using the internet to send messages to each other, read news and swap files.Dec 3, 2020

  • World Wide Web Went Public

    World Wide Web Went Public
    the first website in history was launched by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee. Explore the history of the web with us! The World Wide Web, also known as the Web or WWW, is a system of web documents and other resources linked together through hyperlinks and URLs.

  • Application Software Launched (1995 - 2024)

    Application Software Launched (1995 - 2024)
    Amazon.com, Craigslist, eBay, Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, and many more software applications has been launched and it currently has 282 million Internet users by year 1999 and is continuously increasing over the time.