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Cooke and Wheatstone used Morse code to communicate with others. This is similar to how computers communicate.
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Allowed for direct, instantaneous communication across the Atlantic. Today these cables connect us to every continent.
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Alexander Graham Bell created the backbone of all internet connections. This allows computers to connect over telephone networks.
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Timothy Berners-Lee created the internet.
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Was chosen to head ARPA's research in improving the military's use of computer technology. Licklider was a visionary who wanted to make the government's use of computers more interactive.
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PS networks developed. Data is now split into tiny packets that can take many different routes. If one route goes down, another may be followed.
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Four nodes and a test. The first node was created at UCLA, the second at Stanford, the third at UCSB and the fourth at the University of Utah.
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The plan was unprecedented, however Professor Kleinrock made it happen.
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Ray Tomlinson invents email program to send messages across distributed network. At this point in time there are only 23 internet hosts.
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Queen Elizabeth sends out an email.
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The internet gets much larger. It is becoming hard to remember the exact path of nodes, so the use of meaningful names was introduced.
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The number of hosts exceeds 1000. Instead of websites using a string of numbers to identify, meaningful names such as "facebook.com" is now used.
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Over 5000 hosts, 241 news groups at this time in history.
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The number of hosts breaks 100,000. The first relays between commercial electronic mail carrier and the internet are seen.
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User friendly internet is introduced. At this point in history, over 2 million hosts recorded.
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the WWW revolution begins. The White House opens their web page. The president gets an email account.
