History of the internet

  • First Telegraph Sent

    First telegraph sent by Samuel Morse he wrote "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Trans-atlantic cable becomes operational

    The cable running under the atlantic ocean became operational reducing the time for communication between england and america from 10 days to a matter of minutes.
  • telephone

  • First programmable computer

    The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer.
  • First Satelite launched

    The first sattelite launched was sputnik 1 and was the worlds first artificial sattelite
  • First Email sent

    The queen sent her first email
  • Birth of the internet

    The Internet began as a Cold War military technology. It was a way for military computers to communicate over long distances. Other institutions, such as universities and hospitals began to associate their computers through the Internet during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Birth of TCP/IP

    On this date, approximately 400 computers connected to a network called ARPAnet all started communicating with each other with a collection of mechanisms known informally as TCP/IP.
  • Whitehouse Website Launched

  • Launch of google

    Google began in March 1996 as a research project
  • Launch of Trademe

    Trade Me Ltd the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan
  • Launch Of Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg Launched facebook as a tribute to his previous Facemash