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ARPANET
The ARPANET was invented in 1969 for the first time; it was the original form of the internet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The network was created by a small research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defence. The packet switching o -
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Outlined History of the Internet
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The minicomputer Xerox Alto
The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks. Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to describe the ability of being able to display a file or document exactly how it is going to be printed or viewed. Altair produced the first portable computer. The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gat -
1970’s Newsgroups
1970s- Newsgroups, which are discussion groups focusing on a topic, followed, providing a means of exchanging information throughout the world. While Usenet is not considered as part of the Internet, since it does not share the use of TCP/IP, it linked UNIX systems around the world, and many Internet sites took advantage of the availability of newsgroups. It was a significant part of the community building that took place on the networks.
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1971 The first advertisement for a microprocessor
1971- The first advertisement for a microprocessor, the Intel 4004, appeared in Electronic News. Developed for Busicom, a Japanese calculator maker, the 4004 had 2250 transistors and could perform up to 90,000 operations per second in four-bit chunks. Federico Faggin led the design and Ted Hoff led the architecture. -
1978- @ Symbol used in email address
Computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email in late 1971. Under ARPAnet several major innovations occurred: email (or electronic mail), the ability to send simple messages to another person across the network (1971). Ray Tomlinson worked as a computer engineer for Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the company hired by the United States Defence Department to build the first Internet in 1968. -
1980s-Domain name addressing system
This was when the first computers began connecting to each other over Wide Area Networks (WAN's), like the ARPANET in the 1960's, a form of identification was needed to properly access the various systems. At first the networks were composed of only a few computer systems associated with the U.S. Department of Defence and other institutions. As the number of connections grew, a more effective system was needed to regulate and maintain the domain paths throughout the network. -
1983 The internet matured in the 70’s
1983-The Internet matured in the 70's as a result of the TCP/IP architecture first proposed by Bob Kahn at BBN and further developed by Kahn and Vint Cerf at Stanford and others throughout the 70's. It was adopted by the Defence Department in 1980 replacing the earlier Network Control Protocol (NCP) and universally adopted by 1983. -
1984- The TCP IP protocol, National Science Foundation (NSF)
The NSF began construction of several regional supercomputing centres to provide very high-speed computing resources for the US research community. In 1985, with the CSNET growing rapidly, NSF hired Dennis Jennings to lead the establishment of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) to link five of the university based super-computer centres to enable sharing of resources and information. Jennings made three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET -
1989 World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990. In 1989, while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), both men made proposals for hypertext systems and hyperlinks. Tim berners –lee is often credited with being the inventor of the World Wide Web. -
1990 search engines
In 1990 the first search engine was also created by an American university student. Called Archie, its aim was to archive and be able to search for information over the internet. At its highest point in reportedly held 150 gigabytes of indexing data, this for the time was a huge account. If we compare this with Google it can process around 20,000 terabytes of data every day. -
1990 first commercial dial-up
The World, the first commercial Internet dial-up access provider comes online. Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access via telephone lines. The first serious commercial dialup services, offered by CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online were made available in 1995. By the end of 1996, there were an estimated 14 million US households using dialup services for online access. -
1993 Mosaic at (NCSA)
In 1993 Mosaic was developed at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign beginning in late 1992. NCSA released the browser in 1993, and officially discontinued development and support on January 7, 1997. However, it can still be downloaded from NCSA. -
1996 -History and Growth of the Internet
Today the Internet continues to grow day by day. The following table shows the incredibly fast evolution of the Internet from
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2000 .com bubble
2000- The dot-com bubble refers to the speculative bubble that took place in Information Technology and communication type industries during the late 1990s, until it’s collapse in 2000/2001.
