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The Internet
The idea for the internet was made by a man by the name of J.C.R. Licklider. He published a paper on packet-switching theory, as well. -
ARPANET
Lawrence G. Roberts published a plan for ARPANET, an ARPA-based network. The plan came to fruition in 1969. -
Unix
Development of the Unix operating system started at the Bell Research Center in 1969. Unix became a family of operating systems, being the start of things like Linux. -
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
The first File Transfer Protocol was written by Abhay Bhushan and published as RFC 114 in 1971. -
USENET
USENET was invented in 1979 as a dialup communication system for computers. -
Domain Name System
The Domain Name System is the way of naming and organizing web domains since 1985. Elizabeth Feinler developed the first ARPANET directory; a direct precursor to the modern Domain Name System. -
World Wide Web
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN. He invented Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to code the WWW. -
CERN
CERN is a scientific research station in Switzerland that was where the World Wide Web was created. CERN helped with making the internet from the beginning. -
Gopher
Gopher was a protocol serving to be an alternative to the World Wide Web, created in 1991 by Mark P. McCahill. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was released majorly in 1997 as a way to control the back end specifics of your website.
