Networking

By Divadman

  • Data Phone

    AT&T designed its Dataphone, the first commercial modem, specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network.

  • ONline Transactions

    Online transaction processing made its debut in IBM´s SABRE reservation system, set up for American Airlines. Using telephone lines, SABRE linked 2,000 terminals in 65 cities to a pair of IBM 7090 computers, delivering data on any flight in less than three seconds.

  • Improvements of the modem

    John van Geen of the Stanford Research Institute vastly improved the acoustically coupled modem.

  • First ATM installed

    Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, Ga., installed the country´s first automatic teller machine.

  • Computer to Computer comunications

    Computer-to-computer communication expanded when the Department of Defense established four nodes on the ARPANET: the University of California Santa Barbara and UCLA, SRI International, and the University of Utah. Viewed as a comprehensive resource-sharing network, ARPANET´s designers set out with several goals: direct use of distributed hardware services; direct retrieval from remote, one-of-a-kind databases; and the sharing of software subroutines and packages not available on the users´ prima

  • First Email Sent

    The first e-mail is sent. Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project.

  • Blue Box created

    Wozniak´s "blue box", Steve Wozniak built his "blue box" a tone generator to make free phone calls.

  • ethernet created

    Robert Metcalfe devised the Ethernet method of network connection at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

  • 1st Civ network

    Telenet, the first commercial packet-switching network and civilian equivalent of ARPANET, was born.

  • Queen Sends her 1st email

    The Queen of England sends first her e-mail.

  • USENET Created

    USENET established. USENET was invented as a means for providing mail and file transfers using a communications standard known as UUCP.

  • ARPANET Splits

    The ARPANET splits into the ARPANET and MILNET. Due to the success of the ARPANET as a way for researchers in universities and the military to collaborate, it was split into military (MILNET) and civilian (ARPANET) segments.

  • 1st worm

    Robert Morris´ worm flooded the ARPANET. Then-23-year-old Morris, the son of a computer security expert for the National Security Agency, sent a nondestructive worm through the Internet, causing problems for about 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts linked to the network.

  • WWW was Born

    The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML, as it is commonly known, allowed the Internet to expand into the World Wide Web, using specifications he developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

  • 1st Web browser

    The Mosaic web browser is released. Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet.