Jaevian's History Timeline

Telecommunications Cable

1869

Took less time and laid down work from future and better technology.

Packets

1965

The packets carry the data in the protocols that the Internet uses.

ARPANET

1969

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

First Email

1971

Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself.

TCP

1974

TCP is one of the main protocols in networks. Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data.

First optics Cable

1976

It was in 1976 that AT&T first experimented with installing a fiber optic system in Atlanta, Georgia. Others soon followed, but it wasn’t until a few years later that fibers were capable of carrying light pulses over longer distances without the signal weakening.

First Dial-up

1979

Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line. The user's computer or router uses an attached modem to encode and decode information into and from audio frequency signals, respectively
In 1979.

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

First Internet

1983

ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.

DNS

1983

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities.

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

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

Netscape

1990

Netscape is a brand name associated with the development of the Netscape web browser. It is now owned by Verizon Media, a subsidiary of Verizon. The brand belonged to the Netscape Communications Corporation (formerly Mosaic Communications Corporation), an independent American computer services company, whose headquarters were in Mountain View, California, and later Dulles, Virginia.[2] The browser was once dominant but lost to Internet Explorer and other competitor.

Registered Domains

1993

In 1993, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in conjunction with several public and private entities, created InterNIC to maintain a central database that contains all the registered domain names and the associated IP addresses in the U.S. (other countries maintain their own NICs (Network Information Centers) -- there's a link below that discusses Canada's system, for example). Network Solutions,

Yahoo

1994

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