The Evolution of the Internet

By 19mdimaria

  • The Internet's Beginnings

    The USSR launched the firt artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit.

  • ARPA

    The US Department of Defense founded ARPA to pursue research in missle technology.

  • Computer Research

    ARPA created a computer reasearch department called the IPTO.

  • IPTO

    IPTO began developing a computer network capable of transmitting information over phone lines using packet switching.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    ARPA contrector Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at UCLA, installed the first computer processor capablke of handling digital packet switched data on a host computer.

  • Host computers

    23 host computers at 15 different institutions were part of the ARPA net.

  • ARPANet

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

  • Telenet

    A public network, Telenet, began service in 7 US cities.

  • BBN

    BBN and Stanford researchers designed a way to link all the networks to one another: the Internet.

  • ARPANet

    The ARPANet began using TCP/IP

  • Tim Berners Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

  • Gopher

    Search program called Gopher organozed information on the internet according to related topics.

  • Brewster Khale

    Brewster Khale wide area information servers.

  • NCSA

    NCSA made Mosaic available for free,

  • Jim Clark

    A Hareessen and Jim Clark formed Mosaic communications Corporation.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft released Internet Explorer.

  • AOL

    America Online purchased Netscape.

  • PC

    More than one half of the personal computers in the US used Internet Explorer.

  • The Web

    The web had expanded to include 36 million sites with 1000s more added every day.