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ARPANET in development
The advanced research projects administration, a division in the U.S defense department, developed ARPANET to link different universities and researchers together ARPANET History -
First e-mail to be sent
Raymond Tomlinson, joined in on the development of ARPANET, creating the first application for network emailing. bringing a revolution to how people would start to communicate. Raymon Tomlinson Biography -
The TCP/IP protocol suite
the TCP/IP allowed computers soon different networks to communicate. Developed by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, it slowly became the standard for communicating using ARPANET and the internet. Janet Abbate "Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet.” -
World Wide Web
Tim Berner Lee, developed the world wide web at CERN, leading to the development of HTML, HTTP, and the first web browser. Tim Berner Lee -
First website to go live
The first website to ever go live contained information about the World Wide Web. Created by Tim Berner Lee, going information about how to create webpages and hypertext First website -
Mosaic - first web browser
Developed by staff and students at NSF-supported National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Revolutionized the internet and was the starting foundation
Mosaic History
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Netscape
Far more advance and useable compared to mosaic. it became the top browser only after 4 months of its launch Netscapes life -
Dot Com Bubble
the dot com boom, another name for the event, provided the growing internet an opportunity to expand to investors and start up companies A Brief History of Internet Time: A Review of General Semantics -
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First social media - Myspace
Myspace was on of the first social media websites to launch where people can easily share and create posts. it was the foundation for following social media websites such as Facebook, instagram and snapchat. myspace history -
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Introduction to mobiles
With the launch of the first iPhone by Apple, it revolutionized how the internet would be used on the daily and become way more easily accessible. Iphone's launch -
Access to the internet becomes a human right
Accessing the Internet official became a right to freely access information, education and expression by the United Nations in 2016 United Nations article -
Internets role in a Pandemic
With the pandemic the world witness in 2020, internet access became a need for society to continue and function. with the push towards online education and the boom in e-business. effects of the pandemic -
Emergence of Web3
Web3 is an upcoming technology which wants to completely revolutionize the internet, making it more open yet more secure. web3
