History of the internet

First 'Computer' created

1822

Charles Babbage developed the "Different Machine," which was considered the first mechanical computer.

USSR launches Sputnik

1957

The Soviet Union launched the first manmade satellite, which resulted in fear and anxiety among the public. Many feared that the USSR was capable of launching dangerous missiles. As a result, the USA began investing in science and technology. This marked the "Potential Beginning of the Internet."

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) is established

1958

After the USSR's launch of Sputnik, the US brought forth ARPA, which introduced the concept of global connections.

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was Launched

1969

The purpose behind ARPANET was for researchers to communicate with others in order to share their information. The idea had become as success when four university computers were connected to form a network. The Network Control Protocol provided the connection. This invention marked the "birth of the internet."

EMAIL is invented

1972

Ray Tomlinson invents email. He decided the "@" symbol would be used to separate the user name from the host name.

ARPANET makes the first connection outside the USA

1973

At this time, there were approximately 2000 people connected. ARPANET's first connection past US boundaries was to Norway. This was before they connected to the University College of London.

Term "Internet" was first used

1974

The word internet was first used by Vine Cerf as a shortcut for "Inter-Networking."

First Internet Sevice Provider

1974

Internet Service Providers are companies that provides citizens connection to the internet. Telenet was the first ISP, and was founded by Larry Roberts. It was the first profitable version for ARPANET.

First Ever Spam Email

1978

Gary Thuerk ws attempting to sell a product, and sent an email about it to 400 people, which they found annoying. This was when spam mail came to be.

Protocol for ARPANET emerges

1982

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) became the protocol for ARPANET. This allowed for multiple computers to connect and communicate with each other. This is still used as the internet's protocol today.

Domain Name System launches host names

1983

Paul Mockapetris created the Domain Name System. He proposed a naming system and created easily recognizable address names in order to easily access a website. Examples include: .com, .net, .org.

First Internet Worm (Morris Worm)

1988

Robert Morris had released a worm on the internet, causing 10% of the world's computers to crash. Teams of programmers had to work all day and night in order to prevent the spread of the bug from worsening.

ARPANET ceases to exist, World Wide Web is created

1989

Sir Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web. It is commonly confused as being the same the internet. You can view Web pages, and in order to access text or images, you would need to click a link. The Web was built on top of the internet to share information utilizing the internet, therefore making the use of it more known to the public.

World Wide Web Protocols were created.

1990

Tim Berners Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web had also developed the three main protocols used by the WWW, which are still presently used. These included Hypertext Markup (HTML), Uniform Resource Identifier (URL), and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

World Wide Web is Available to Public

1991

CERN introduces the WWW to public and is open for business.

The First Web Browser is created

1993

Students at the University of Illinois' NCSA brought forth a more advanced browser, one that displayed text and images all on one page. This browser was named Mosaic. Initially, it was only available to universities, but later on was provided to home users.

Netscape Navigator launches

1994

Mark Andreessen, the leader of Mosaic, had gotten together with Jim Clark to create the company Netscape Communications. Through this, they launched a more preferable browser name 'Netscape Navigator,' which became more popular than Mosaic in a short period of time.

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer

1995

Competition between Microsoft and Netscape arises

1996

Navigator by Netscape was the most used browser, but once Microsoft released Internet Explorer, the two competed for more users as they released new features.

Broadband Internet is established

1997

Fast connection to the internet from citizens' homes using a cable were introduced.It was now quicker for people to use the internet for their personal and leisurely activities (such as downloading and listening to music, and sending emails) without the need for using a dial up (accessing the internet by dealing a telephone number.

Google Search Engine Launched

1998

Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed a partnership and created a search engine that involved the use of link to discover pages on the WWW right from their own dorms. They originally named this search engine 'Backrub," but chose to change it.

'Dot-Com' Bubble

2000

This was called the "Fall of the Internet." At this time, the amount of consumers using the internet grew largely. Many internet-based companies (dot-coms) began to fail economically, because their stock prices elevated but they could not keep up. Somewhat down permanently, while others (e-Bay and Amazon) recovered and caught up to their stock prices.

Mozilla launches Firefox

2004

When Internet Explorer surpassed Netscape in their competition, Netscape eventually became 'Mozilla." Years later, a new browser called Firefox was released.

Youtube was launched

2005

Founded by former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. At first, it was supposed to be a dating website, but that idea failed. Today it is known to be the most popular site to watch and upload original content.

New iPhone popularizes wireless internet

2007

When Apple released the first iPhone, the concept of accessing the internet on a mobile/wireless device was introduced to many.