The Beginnings of the Internet

By 19nkolb

  • Beginning

    The Cold War began, as did technology.

  • Artificial satellite

    The USSR launched an artificial satellite into orbit.

  • ARPA

    U.S Department of Defense founded the ARPA.

  • IPTO

    The ARPA created the IPTO, which was a research department.

  • Joseph Licklider

    Joseph Licklider left the ARPA. Licklider was an american psychologist and a computer scientist.

  • Packet Switching

    IPTO started using "packet switching."

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock, who was an ARPA contractor from UCLA, installed the first computer processor capable of handling digital packet-switched data.

  • ARPANet

    UCLA computer sent its first packet of data over a telephone line. This began ARPANet.

  • Joining the ARPANet

    23 host computers at 15 different institutions were a part of the ARPANet. ARPANet stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

  • New program

    ARPANet researchers developed a new computer program that enabled people to send brief messages to each other across the network.

  • Telenet

    Telenet began service in seven different US cities.

  • Linking networks

    Researchers at BBN and Stanford designed a way to link all the networks to one another.

  • TCP

    The ARPANet began using TCP and others followed.

  • "The Internet"

    The supernet had now became known as "The Internet"

  • Gopher

    Gopher, the search engine, became available to the public.

  • WAIS system

    Computer researcher, Brewster Kahle, invented the WAIS system. (Wide Area Information Servers system)

  • "HTML"

    "HTML" had been used to create over 50 websites on the internet.

  • Mosaic Netscape

    Mosaic Communications Corp. launched a communication web browser program: Mosaic Netscape.

  • Internet Explorer.

    Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Washington) released the Internet Explorer.

  • Netscape purchased

    America Online Inc. purchased Netscape.

  • Popularity of the Internet Explorer

    Over half of the personal computers in Ameica used Internet Explorer. One third used Netscape Navigator.

  • The Web

    The Web expanded to over 36 million sites.

  • XML

    A new computer language, "XML," was invented.