History of the internet

By jg1234
  • 1969 Creation of arpanet

    Arpanet or advanced research project agency network was created during the height of the cold war by the American research team in order to create a method for sending and receiving information.
    It was based around the packet switching theory
    The first message was sent from the university of California los Angeles to the Stanford research institution the message was meant to say login but the system crashed after lo was sent the system recovered an hour later the first Arpanet link
  • Creation of email

    basic email program was written by ray Tomlinson called cpynet this allowed the messages to be sent as files over the Arpanet network using the packet switching theory
    Eventually other email networks were put forward as the software and the computers became more readily available linking different networks together forming larger and more expansive networks such as the Unix mail network
  • Internet packet switching service 1978

    The international packet switched service was a packet switching network which connected the general post office in Britain with the western union the American financial and communications
    They were connected by a packet switch stream modem and data could then be sent in a variety of speeds between companies however the higest speeds cost more money
  • TCP/ip protocol

    The transmission control protocol and the internet protocol effect how different applications work with each other with the internet it is used to format data in a specific way by layering the data and showing how it should be formatted sent and received, tcp/ip were the first network protocols
  • Establishment of the csnet network

    csnet stands for computer science network this connected universities which were not connected to Arpanet network and levelled the playing field in terms of networking as it was separate from the military managed Arpanet network
  • Domain name addressing system 1984

    was implemented to assist any users of the networks to find specific information or a specific address or computer ,it was the method of simplifying ip addresses and changing them into web links each being unique
  • The well created

    the worlds first social networking website the well launched in febuary 2005
  • 10,000 internet hosts

    In 1987 there were over 10,000 hosts on the internet this highlights the rapid growth of the internet as more people were logging online
  • First commercial dial up

    First commercial dial up was an internet service provider called the world allowed internet access to the public for the first time major companies were unhappy and threatend to block this however the national science foundation allowed the world toc continue to supply internet access
  • creation of the world wide web

    In 1990 Tim Berners Lee created of the world wide web while working in CERN by joining hypertext mark-up language with transmission control protocol and domain systems name to create a uniform resorce locator
  • development of the first browser

    In 1991 in the research laboratories in the European organisation for nuclear research laboratories the first web browsers was created allowed users to search on the server for any information which had been placed on the world wide web also the client software for general use by the public
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    search engine development

    over the 6 year period many search engines ere developed the first was archie in 1992 however although the development of search engines continued the worlds most used search engine google was created in 1998
  • mosaic browser launched

    n 1993 the world’s first internet browser mosaic was created it allowed more people to use the internet efficiently
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    word internet in daily use

    The internet had grown so rapidly that by 1996 the world had accepted the term of the internet
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    10 million internet users

    internet reaches its landmark 10 million usersshowing how it has increased dramatically over the past decade
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    The dotcom bubble bursts

    The stock market gain an increase in trading with the dotcom business saw an increase in stock price however these prices begain to crash in early 2000 this led to massive bankrucpy and loss of jobs and caused some companies to go bankrupt
  • google created

    the world most used search engine was created on 4th september 1998
  • facebook created

    the worlds most used social networking site facebook was created in 2004
  • youtube launched

    video sharing site youtube launched in 2005
  • Twitter launched

    social networking website twitter is launched in 2006 it is now the worlds 2nd most popular social networking website
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    Over 10 billion app downloads

    In january 2011 it was announced that from apple products alone there were over 10 billion app dowloads from the app store