History of internet

History of the Internet

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  • A.R.P.A

    A.R.P.A
    Advanced Research Project Agency (A.R.P.A) was created to go against Russian military and technological advances.
  • Leonard Kleinrock proposes Packet Switching

    Leonard Kleinrock proposes Packet Switching
    Leonard Kleinrock proposes packet switching in his Doctoral dissertation.
  • Packet Switching

    Packet Switching
    Packet Switching was developed by Paul Baran, who was a researcher for the RAND Corporation in 1964 and it was funded by the US Department of Defense.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    ARPANET was the first public packet-switched computer network. It was first used in 1969 and finally decommissioned in 1989. ARPANET's main use was for academic and research purposes.
  • First E-Mail

    First E-Mail
    The first e-mail was sent from MIT using a PDP-10 computer from Ray Tomlinson.
  • Email gains popularity

    Email gains popularity
    Email started gaining popularity and it was the first public demonstration of ARPANET.
  • Bob Khan and Vint Cerf

    Bob Khan and Vint Cerf
    Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet by creating the (TCP/IT) The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.
  • ARPANET Divide

    ARPANET Divide
    ARPANET divides and the military functions of ARPANET go to MILNET.
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Apple

    Apple
    Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
  • Paul Mockapetris

    Paul Mockapetris
    He created the Domain Name System. translates human-readable domain names (for example, https://aguadilla.inter.edu/) to machine-readable IP addresses.
  • NSFnet

    NSFnet
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) created the NSFnet which substituted ARPANET.
  • Brain Virus

    Brain Virus
    The Alvi brothers created the Braini Virus. The intention was to track illegal copies of medical software and prevent pirated licenses, once a person used a pirated copy of the software, the virus infected the computer. Then any disc that was inserted into the computer was also infected. Although the intention was not to destroy data or hardware, the virus slowed down productivity and significantly impacted business operations.
  • Hosts

    Hosts
    More than 10,000 internet hosts are surpassed.
  • CERT

    CERT
    A Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a group of information security experts responsible for the protection against, detection of, and response to an organization's cybersecurity incidents.
  • Morris Worm

    Morris Worm
    Robert Morris developed a program to assess the size of the internet. It kept re-installing itself until the computers ran out of memory and crashed. About 6,00 computers were affected, representing 10% of the internet at the time.
  • WWW

    WWW
    Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web while working at CERN.
  • Amazon

    Amazon
    Jeff Bezos created Amazon.
  • Google

    Google
    Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.
  • Love Letter Attack

    Love Letter Attack
    Onel De Guzman created the LoveLetter malware to steal internet login credentials. An email was sent with the subject "I Love You" attached with the file "Love Letter For You." When the attachment was opened, the malware scanned a user's address book. Then, it automatically sent itself to each person on the list and installed a program to collect user information and passwords.
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history and has consistently been one of the 10 most popular websites. Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with nearly three billion users as of 2021, and about half that number were using Facebook every day.
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube as an online video-sharing platform. YouTube's creators aimed to make it simple for individuals to publish and distribute videos globally
  • iPhone

    iPhone
    The original iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs as a combination of the iPod, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communicator.
  • Twitch

    Twitch
    Twitch was created
  • Flappy Bird

    Flappy Bird
    Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by the Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen, under his game development company Gears. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between columns of green pipes without hitting them.
  • TikTok

    TikTok
    The app was launched in 2016 by the Chinese technology company ByteDance. Now available in more than 150 different markets, TikTok has offices in Beijing; Los Angeles; Moscow; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo. The app saw about 1 billion global daily users by early 2022. it gained popularity during the 2020 Pandemic.
  • Fortnite

    Fortnite
    Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017.
  • Ninja

    Ninja
    Blevins' rise among mainstream media began in March 2018 when he played Fortnite together with Drake, Travis Scott, and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a peak viewer count record on Twitch with 635,000 concurrent viewers.
  • Zuckerberg Trial

    Zuckerberg Trial
    Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Congress.
  • PewDiePie

    PewDiePie
    The first person to reach 100 million subscribers.
  • TikTok Trial

    TikTok Trial
    TikTok CEO Shou Chew testifies before Congress.