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The first message and network crash
The first Internet message was sent from the computer science laboratory at UCLA to a second piece of network equipment at the Stanford Research Institute. The message was not completed because the SRI system crashed and then restored, so the SRI system could become logged in. -
First E-mail
Ray Tomlinson sends the first network E-mail. It's the first system to send text messages across a network. -
First commercial network
Telenet is introduced in 1974, considered to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) -
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP dictated how information was packaged, sent, received, and located. The creators, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, are considered to be the inventors of the Internet. -
Modem
Modems allowed computers to send and receive information over telephone lines by converting digital data into an analog signal. The 80-103A was made for home users. -
Domain Name System
The first domain name is registered. The DNS used words to direct users to the IP address of a website. -
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is used to create electronic documents displayed on the World Wide Web. -
World Wide Web
What we refer to as the Internet today, the Web is a series of sites and pages connected by links. -
Internet Browsers
Mosaic becomes the first graphic web browser, preceding the more popular IE, Chrome and Firefox