Timeline History of Internet

Morse Code a series of dots and dashes used to communicate between humans. Revolutionised human (tele)communications

1836 | Telegraph

is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.

1858-1866 | Transatlantic

CableTelephones exchanges provide the backbone of Internet connections todayis a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are not in the same vicinity of each other to be heard directly.

1876 | Telephone

The start of global telecommunications. Satellites play an important role in transmitting all sorts of data today.first artificial earth satellite.

1957 | USSR

Launches Sputnik

Data is split into tiny packets that may take different routes to a destination.More than one route available -- if one route goes down another may be followed.

1962 - 1968 | Packet

Swiching (PS)

NetworksARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networkingis a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users worldwide.

1969 | Birth of Internet

History of Internet

Ethernet outlined -- this how local networks are basically connected today.Internet ideas started.

1971 - 1976 | Global

Networking Becomes Reality

is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging.

1977 | Email Takes Off

Computer Science Department research computer network established in USA.USENET established using UUCP.

1979 | New Groups Born

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BITNET, the "Because It's Time NETwork" Started as a cooperative network at the City University of New York, with the first connection to Yale Provides electronic mail and listserv servers to distribute information, as well as file transfersCSNET (Computer Science NETwork) established to provide networking services (specially E-mail) to university scientists with no access to ARPANET. CSNET later becomes known as the Computer and Science Network

1981 | Things

Start To Become Better

DCA and ARPA establishes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET.

1982 | TCP/IP Defines Future

Communication

Name server developed.Desktop workstations come into being.

1983 | Internet

Gets Bigger

Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Association, Inc. formed after NSF lifts restrictions on the commercial use of the Net.Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)

1991 | Modernisa

tion Begins

Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the U of Minnesota.World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer.

Also in 1991, Friendly User Interface to

WWW Established

Number of hosts breaks 1 Million. News groups 4,000Internet Society (ISOC) is chartered.First MBONE audio multicast (March) and video multicast (November).The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.

1992 | Multimedia changes the face of the

internet

Business and Media really take notice of the Internet.Number of Hosts 2 Million. 600 WWW sites.

1993 | The WWW

Revolution Truly

BeginsLocal communities begin to be wired up directly to the Internet Shopping malls, banks arrive on the Internet

1994 | Commercialisation Begins

The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.

1996 | Microsoft Begins

1997 – The big question is what’s Next? 19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups

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Citations: http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_communications_cable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email