Timelines about Internet

Telegraph cable

1869

with a telegraph cable you were able to send a message from across the world to another.

First optics cable used for communication

1920

In the 1920s, John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television and Clarence W. Hansell did the same for facsimiles. Heinrich Lamm, however, was the first person to transmit an image through a bundle of optical fibers in 1930.

ARPANET

1960

l Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, experimental computer network that was the forerunner of the Internet.

First email

1971

first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10.

first internet provider

1974

The first ISP is widely believed to be Telenet, which was the first commercial version of ARPANET introduced in 1974. The first ISP for the Internet we know and use today is considered to be "The World" who started serving customers in 1989.

first router

1981

The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa; both were also based on PDP-11s. Virtually all networking now uses TCP/IP, but multiprotocol routers are still manufactured.

TCP

1982

The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol. Therefore, the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.

Internet packets

1983

The packets carry the data in the protocols that the Internet uses: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Each packet contains part of the body of your message. A typical packet contains perhaps 1,000 or 1,500 bytes.

DNS

1983

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet. Humans access information online through domain names, like nytimes.com or espn.com. Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources.

Registered Domains

1985

Domain registration is the process of acquiring a domain name from a domain name registrar

NSFNET

1985

The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.

First dial up

1989

Located in Boston, MA, the World was the first to offer dial-up internet service back in 1989. Its webpage is simple and unadorned, suitable for its dial-up customers. AOL: This is probably the most well-known of the early ISP's. ... It became the first and fastest growing dial-up connections to the world wide web.

Development of HTML

1990

First developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, HTML is short for Hypertext Markup Language. ... Every web page you see on the Internet is written using one version of HTML code or another.

yahoo

1990

DescriptionYahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.

netscape and yahoo

1994

The Netscape web browser is the general name for a series of web browsers formerly produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, a former subsidiary of AOL.