History of internet

Project ARPA

1957

United States create the ARPA project, to protect from possible nuclear attacks when they felt threatened by the sovietic union

DARPA

1960

U.S.A. create DARPA to avoid failures in the comunication networks, it investigation got based on connect several computers between them and if one computer fail make the others to continue working

1965

1965

° First data links between networks of several universities and laboratories of U.S.A.
° ARPA became ARPANET.
° Creation of protocol TCP/IP that became the standard of comunication until now.

E-mail

1971

In 1971 e-mail was created

First apps

1988

The first apps that use internet were created, such as; MIR, first chat; MORRIS SWORM, first virus; and ARCHIE, first searcher.

ARPANET

1990

ARPANET got transformed as it wasn´t created for many computers to connetct between them.

World Wide Web

1991

ARPANET became into World Wide Web ( WWW ).

NETSCAPE

1993

The first browser was created, MOSAIC, but then it became into NETSCAPE

1995

1995

HTML language, the first web pages, first blogs, windows 95 and internet explorer were created.

HOTMAIL

1996

HOTMAIL was created, and also more than 10 million computers connect to the network.

GOOGLE

1998

GOOGLE, the most popular and used website in the world was created

WiFi

1999

WiFi technology appears.

Facebook

2004

Facebook, the most known social network was created.

Youtube

2005

Youtube, the most popular internet portal that allows users to upload and view videos was created.

Twitter

2006

Twitter, a network of microblogging that allows the user to write and read messages in internet was created.