The History of Internet

By Thucks

  • First Telecommunication cable

    First Telecommunication cable
    When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field.

  • Russia Launches Sputnik to spy on Us

    Russia Launches Sputnik to spy on Us
    USSR launches Sputnik the very first satellite into space and with sets off the race to link the through global communications. US is worried that it is to spy on US.

  • 1st Modem

    1st Modem
    The first commercial modem was produced by Bell Laboratories, but invented by Doctor Townshed .

  • ARPANET Project

    ARPANET Project
    Robert Taylor initiates the ARPANET project, the foundation for today's internet under the Department of Defense

  • Internet Launches With Four Computers

    Internet Launches With Four Computers
    The physical network is constructed linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles , SRI (in Stanford ), University of California at Santa Barbra, and University of Utah

  • First Email

    First Email
    Ray Tomlinson sent out the first email which was a test message to himself. It traveled to one computer from another.

  • ALOHAnet

    ALOHAnet
    The AHOLAnet connected the Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network.

  • First router

    First router
    AT&T Corporation, intended for use in cashier systems.

  • 1st Submarine Fiber

    1st Submarine Fiber
    The first submarine fiber cable( five miles with no repeaters) was laid in the English Channel between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

  • First Domain Name System

    First Domain Name System
    The Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses.

  • National Research & Education Network

    National Research & Education Network
    was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.[1] NSFNET was also the name given to several nationwide backbone computer networks that were constructed to support NSF's networking initiatives from 1985 to 1995.

  • First Transatlantic Fiber Cable

    First Transatlantic Fiber Cable
    TAT-8 fiber optic cable went into service was laid under the Atlantic Ocean, from the United States to Britain. It carried the equivalent of 40,000 telephone conversations.

  • First Web Page

    First Web Page
    In 1989, Tim Berners- Lee made a paper proposal creating a more linked page for his invention.

  • First Internet Server

    First Internet Server
    NEXCube was invented by Tim Berners Lee for his new invention called the World Wide Web. This was the computer where the very first web page and website was stored.

  • Deep Web

    Deep Web
    A large part of the Internet that is inaccessible to conventional search engines also invented by Micheal K. Bergman

  • Skype

    Skype
    Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, it used to be a dating website and also with connected with google.

  • Oovoo

    Oovoo
    ooVoo was a video chat and an messaging app developed by ooVoo LLC and owned by Krush Technologies, LLC. ooVoo had applications for Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and Facebook.

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly, or privately to pre-approved followers.

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc.