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Galactic Network
Licklider writes a reasearch describing his proposal for a Galatic Network. A network that could speedily share data. -
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Origins of the Internet
Origins of the Internet -
ARPA
ARPA creates a computer reasearch department called IPTO ( Information Processing /technologies Office) -
Packet Switching
IPTO begins developing a computer network capable of transmitting information over the telephone lines using a method called patchet switching -
System called Circuit Switching
An analog system called circuit switching is made. In circuit switching, information information flowing between two callers is restricted to one direct line -
Digital packet switched
Leonard Kleinrock, installs the first computer processor capable of handling digital packet switched data on a UCLA "host" computer. -
UCLA forerunner of Internet
UCLA computer sends it's first packet of data over a telephone line to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute -
E-mail
ARPAnet researchers develop a computer program that enables people to send brief messages to each other across the internet -
The Internet
BBN, and Stanford create the internet by developing a type of communication software called TCP/IP -
Creation of Search Engines
Computer researchers begin to address internet problem by making programs to search for and locate information -
World Wide Web
In 1990 Tim Berners Lee creates the World Wide Web. This allows the Internet to display photographs, video, and sound. -
HTML
Tim Beners Lee creates the HTML( Hypertext Markup Language), to control the way that images on the web appear. -
Gopher
The search program Gopher is developed at the University of Minnesota, and becomes available to the public. -
Invention of WAIS
Computer researcher at Thinking Machines Corporation invents the Wide Area Information Servers. This permitted users to search for files based on their actual content -
Mosaic
Marc Andressen, and Eric Bina make Mosaic this allowed images to be displayed directly on the web -
Hyperlink
Mosaic also added a feature called the Hyperlink. This allowed users to jump from one document to another by clicking on a link.