The History Of The Internet -Finnegan Grieve

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  • Mindaneum

  • Arpa was created.

    ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems.

  • E-Mail Was Created

    1972
    Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address.

  • Domain Name System Created

    Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
    Writer William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace.”
    • .com= company
    • .org= organisation
    • .edu= education
    • .gov= government

  • The Virus Called The Worm Was Made.

    A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris.

  • Nasa Streams Pictures Over Intenet.

    On July 8, 1997, Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day.
    The term “weblog” is coined. It’s later shortened to “blog.”

  • Google Created

    Google opens its first office, in California. Google is the biggest, most known website company ever

  • Apple Music Store Created

    It's estimated that Internet users illegally download about 2.6 billion music files each month.
    Spam, unsolicited email, becomes a server-clogging menace. It accounts for about half of all emails. In December, President Bush signs the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act), which is intended to help individuals and businesses control the amount of unsolicited email they receive.
    Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allow

  • Youtube Created

    YouTube.com is launched. Youtube became one of the biggest websites .

  • 92 Million Websites Online

    There are more than 92 million websites online.

  • Illegal Downloads Increased Since 2003

    Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week.

  • Google Goes To IPv6

    Google transfers from IPv4 to IPv6