The history of the internet

By bjsican

  • First modem

    First modem
    BELL company created the first modem could transmit binary data over a single telephone line.

  • fist Theory

    Leonard Kleinrock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the first theory about the use of packet switching for data transfer.

  • Initiation of investigations by ARPA

    Initiation of investigations by ARPA, an agency of the US Department of Defence, where J.C.R. Licklider successfully defends its ideas on a global computer network.

  • 1st interconnected network

    by phone between UCLA and Stanford universities.

  • First e-mail

    Ray Tomlinson sent the first email and appears the first Creeper virus. Two years later, the word Internet was first used in a transmission control protocol.

  • Emoticons

    It was the date that marked a before and after the great boom that accounted emoticons and today remain. Nine years after Tim Berners Lee, CERN creates the first web page

  • domains ".com"

    that seems to accompany us forever, were born in 1984. (They are the most widespread in the world domains. Used for any type of website themes.)

  • search engines

    Long before the arrival of Google or Bing, there were already search engines, and the first was WebCrawler

  • Yahoo was founded and Microsoft launches Internet Explorer.

    Yahoo was founded in 1994 and the very next year Microsoft launches Internet Explorer. Another revolutionary terms, weblog appears in 1997 used by Jorn Barger.

  • Google is born and reaches one million internet users

    One very important in the history of Internet year is 1998 for two reasons. Google first born and the number of internet users reached one million. most collective encyclopedia Wikipedia appears in 2001.

  • Websites

    Between 2003 and 2005 several innovations occur with the advent of Safari, MySpace, LinkedIn, Skype and WordPress. Facebook, Gmail, Flickr and Vimeo appears in 2004. However, YouTube had to wait until 2005 to see the light.

  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome was born in 2008 and two years later was born Instagram, though only available for Apple. Pinterest, born in 2010 get 10 million users faster than other networks. Finally, 2012 is used for Internet reach 2.4 billion Internet users.