The Internet

By Zed01

  • Leonard Klienrock

    Leonard Kleinrock is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. He developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT in the period from 1960-1962. He developed the theory of communication packages and on the feasibility of communications track packages instead of circuits.

  • J.C.R Licklider

    Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. He was a pioneer of the Internet, with an early vision of a network of computers world long before it was built. In August, 1962, Licklider and Welden Clark elaborated on these ideas in the paper "On-Line Man Computer Communication", one of the first conceptions of the future Internet.

  • First Connection

    ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) 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.

  • First E-mail

    Already on 23 computers connected to ARPANET, Ray Thomson sent the first E-mail of the history.

  • The First International Connection

    Global networking becomes a reality as as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. ARPANET had 2000 users at that time, 75% used it for email mail. Also in 1973 the term "Internet" was born.

  • Telenet

    The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet. was the first packet-switched network service that was available to the general public.

  • Ethernet

    Ethernet is a type of network cabling and signaling specifications developed by Xerox in the late 1970. While Internet is a global network, Ethernet is a local area network (LAN).

  • Transmission Control Protocol

    Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, emerge as the protocol for ARPANET. This results in the fledgling definition of the Internet as connected TCP/IP internets. TCP/IP remains the standard protocol for the Internet.

  • Domain Name Service

    The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, such as 123.456.789.10.

  • World's First Website

    By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had defined the Web’s basic concepts, the URL, http and html, and he had written the first browser and server software. Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first website and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The world's first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centered on information regarding the WWW project.