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arpanet
The first four nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA, Stanford, UC-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. ARPA is the Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency. -
telnet
An early application to allow one to
"log on" to another's network over the internet. Developed in the early 70's and standardized in 1973. -
FTP introduced
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) established in
April 1971, and was the protocol for file transfers between internet nodes. -
email introduced
The early attempts to send email required both
parties to be logged on... not unlike today's
instant messengers without the "instant" speed. -
csnet - Computer Science net
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a
computer network that began operation in 1981 in
the United States.[1] Its purpose was to extend
networking benefits, for computer science
departments at academic and research
institutions that could not be directly
connected to ARPANET, due to funding or
authorization limitations -
listserv
An email applicatiuon that allowed a user to send an email to a large group of users with a single "send" -
nsfnet by the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)
was a program of coordinated, evolving projects
sponsored by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) beginning in 1985...initially created to
link researchers to the nation's NSF-funded
supercomputing centers. -
gopher protocol - University of Minnesota
The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP menu-driven
protocol designed for distributing, searching,
and retrieving documents over the mostly text-
oriented terminals available in 1991. It lost its popularity after graphics based
browsers came out, even though it used less
network resources than browser services. -
html introduced
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags", first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee in late 1991. -
MOSAIC browser
Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign beginning in late 1992. NCSA released the browser in 1993.
