History of the internet 450

The Creation Of The Internet

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    Creation Of Internet

  • ARPA or wide area network approved

  • First network experiment, two computers talked to each other using packet switching technology

  • First paper written on the 'internet concept'

  • Apple computer founded

  • Queen Elizabeth's II sends out an e-mail

  • IBM announces it's first personal computer

  • 'Cisco' systems founded

  • Apple computers introduce the first Macintosh on 24th January

  • 'Cyberspace' was coined

  • Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain on the internet

  • 5,000 hosts on the internet

  • 25 millions PCs sold in the U.S

  • 10,000 hosts on the internet

  • The first internet worm is unleashed by Robert Morris. It infects 6000 computers

  • 100,000 hosts on the internet

  • Google arrives, it's simple design is soothing whilst existing search engines cram their space with adverts

  • Jerry and Davids guide to the World Wide Web is renamed, Yahoo!

  • Windows 95 released

  • The internet has 20 000 000 websites on the internet

  • Photo charing website Flickr is born

  • As broadband becomes more popular people start to sell music and video online

  • Youtube launches

  • There is an estimated 92 million websites on the web

  • Twitter is created

  • Apple surpasses one billion downloads for itunes

  • 1.114 people using the internet

  • Google's 10th birthday

  • Facebook announces that it has 400 million active members