Jay's timeline of the internet

By Jay Clay

  • Telecommunication cable

    Telecommunication cable
    Telecommunications cables are a type of guided transmission mediums. Cables are usually known to transmit electric energy

  • First optics cable used for communications

    First optics cable used for communications
    Optical fiber is used as a medium for telecommunication and computer networking because it is flexible and can be bundled as cables. It is especially advantageous for long-distance communications, because light propagates through the fiber with much lower attenuation compared to electrical cables.

  • Network Packets

    Network Packets
    network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data, which is also known as the payload

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.

  • First Email "@"

    First Email "@"
    Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine

  • First Internet Provider

    First Internet Provider
    ISP history. The first ISP is widely believed to be Telenet, which was the first commercial version of ARPANET

  • First Router

    First Router
    The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford

  • TCP

    TCP
    TCP is one of the main protocols in TCP/IP networks. Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data

  • DNS

    DNS
    The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet

  • Registered Domains

    Registered Domains
    The first domain name, was registered in 1985 and most of the first 100 domains registered were brands like Xerox.com, HP.com, ATT.com, Adobe.com, Apple.com etc.

  • NSFNET

    NSFNET
    The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation

  • Dial-up

    Dial-up
    Dial-up Internet required a phone-line to operate, so phone calls couldn't be made using a landline while the Internet was in use.

  • development of html

    development of html
    The first version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. Since then, there have been many different versions of HTML. The most widely used version throughout the 2000's was HTML 4.01, which became an official standard in December 1999.