Internet

History of Internet

By Enoch.O
  • First internet language

    First internet language
    In 1679 a Leibniz a German mathematician created the first language of computers. The system Leibniz used to make his computer language consisted of 0s and 1s.
  • creation of ENIAC

    The first ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was created. This computer is said to be the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was built during the second World War by the United States.
  • First ever email

    First ever email
    The first ever email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. Mr. Tomlinson was an electrical engineer at the time and got his degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His plan was to find out if two computers could communicate with each other.
  • online shopping

    online shopping
    online shopping began when Michael Aldrich invented, using videotex, a two way message service. This system is now known and called e-commerce. This process was first used in a business to business transaction by UK based Thomson holidays.
  • The first ASCII emoticons

    The first ASCII emoticons
    The creator of the first emoticon is a computer scientist Professor who taught at Carnegie Mellon University named Scott Fahlman. the emoticon he used was smiley face :-)
  • Dark/Deep web created

    Dark/Deep web created
    US military researchers decided to create a system that allowed intelligence operatives and others to exchange information completely anonymously. This system was called 'Tor'(The Onion Router). It was later eliesed to public to help the military exchange info easier without being noticed because of the increase amount of users.
  • First-Ever Website

    First-Ever Website
    On August 6, 1991, a man named Tim Berners-Lee created the first ever website. The first website outlined how to create multiple Web pages and hypertext.
  • First Text Message

    First Text Message
    The first text message ever sent was " merry Christmas." This message was sent by Engineer Neil Papworth on a computer. He also sent the first SMS message to Vodafone director Richard Jarvi's cellular device.
  • creation of Yahoo

    creation of Yahoo
    The two founder of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, launched the program as a catalog for managing websites under the name Yahoo.The acronym for Yahoos is Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle.
  • First VPN

    First VPN
    The first VPN was made by Microsoft’s Gurdeep Singh-Pall and it was called PPTP ( Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol). This is seen as the first method for implementing virtual private networks or VPN. Both founders created this to allow "users to have a secure Internet connection and work effectively and securely from home"
  • First Wi-Fi

    First Wi-Fi
    The first wi-fi was created by a committee called 802.11. Later the committee lead the creation of IEEE802.11. IEEE802.11 is refereed to be the set standard used to define communication for wireless local area networks (WLANs). This led to the the wi-fi we know today.
  • Netflix

    Netflix
    Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph who claim that the original plans for the organization was to become "the Amazon.com of something." They decided on shipping DVDs to customers who were willing to buy them online.
  • creation of bitcoin

    creation of bitcoin
    The first concept of cryptocurrency was thought up in 1998 in by Wei Dai. He suggested the idea of a new form of money that uses cryptography to control all aspect of the currency such as the creation, worth, and transaction. later in 2009, the first Bitcoin specification and proof of concept was published in a cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto.
  • creation of Google

    creation of Google
    in 1998, the one of, and if not the greatest search engine was made. Google was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were two standford attendant.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube was created by Chad Hurley,Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all three who worked together for paypal. Youtube was originally made for them to share the videos of their adventure together but was later sold.