TimeLine Internet

By Danielvalencia19

  • UNIVAC I

    UNIVAC I
    UNIVAC I (the name stood for Universal Automatic Computer) which was delivered to the Census Bureau in 1951. It weighed some 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second.

  • Commercial use of UNIVAC

    Commercial use of UNIVAC
    The first UNIVAC for business applications was installed at the General Electric Appliance Division, to do payroll, in 1954.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Another catalyst in the formation of the Internet was the heating up of the Cold War. The Soviet Union's launch of the Sputnik satellite spurred the U.S. Defense Department to consider ways information could still be disseminated even after a nuclear attack.

  • UNIVAC sales

    UNIVAC sales
    Remington-Rand (which had purchased the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950) had sold forty-six machines.

  • Beginning

    Beginning
    The Internet started in the 1960s as a way for government researchers to share information.

  • The big idea

    The big idea
    In 1962 a scientist named JCR Licklider propose the idea of a network of computers

  • Creation of ARPANET

    Creation of ARPANET
    This eventually led to the formation of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the network that ultimately evolved into what we now know as the Internet

  • Reason of Birthday

    Reason of Birthday
    This allowed different kinds of computers on different networks to "talk" to each other. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1, 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by a universal language.

  • Birthday of Internet

    Birthday of Internet
    January 1, 1983,is considered the official birthday of the Internet.