Internet History Timeline ~ Karlie Shelley

By shelley.k

  • Telecommunications cable

    Telecommunications cable
    Are used to transmit electromagnetic waves, they are called electromagnetic wave guides

  • Packets

    Packets
    Carry's the data in the protocols that the Internet uses: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A typical packet contains perhaps 1,000 or 1,500 bytes.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    The network that became the basis for the Internet.

  • First Email

    First Email
    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.

  • First optic Cable used for communications

    First optic Cable used for communications
    The U.S. government was one of the first big organizations to start using fiber optic cables when they utilized them to link a network of computers together in the NORAD headquarters in Colorado in 1975. Two years later, the first telephone communication system using fiber optic cables was created in Chicago.

  • First Router

    First Router
    The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981

  • TCP

    TCP
    Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data. TCP guarantees delivery of data and also guarantees that packets will be delivered in the same order in which they were sent

  • First Internet Provider

    First Internet Provider
    An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

  • DNS (Domain Name System)

    DNS (Domain Name System)
    Humans access information online through domain names, like nytimes.com or espn.com. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources.

  • The National Science Foundation Network

    The National Science Foundation Network
    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

    First Dial-Up
    Email was invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson as a method of communicating over ARPANET. However, it wasn't until the early 1990s that email began to be used by ordinary people, becoming one of the driving forces behind the rising popularity of the Internet

  • Development Of HTML

    Development Of HTML
    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

  • Registered Domains

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

  • Yahoo And Netscape

    Yahoo And Netscape
    Yahoo! 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.