History of the Internet. An abridged history from 1962 to 2009

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1 History of the Internet An abridged history from 1962 to 2009

2 1962 JCR Licklider ( ) introduced the idea of an Intergalactic Network.

3 1974 Vint Cert and Bob used the term Internet in a Transmission Control Protocol paper

4 1976 Dr. Robert Metcalfe invented Ethernet, coaxial cable that quickly transported data.

5 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first spam to 400 users of ARPANET advertising his Digital Equipment Corporation s new range of minicomputers. Gary Thuerk Then Now

6 1983 On 1 January 1983, every machine connected to ARPANET was required to use TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol). This became the core of the Internet.

7 1984 Dr. Jon Postel describes his idea for.com,.org,.gov,.edu and.mil in a series of papers published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

8 1985 Dennis Jennings joined the National Science Foundation and determined that TCP/IP should be mandatory for the entire NSFNET program.

9 1987 CompuServe accidentally released the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) image not knowing there was a patent pending on the technology

10 1989 The World, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), offered the first commercial dial-up Internet. Netcom, which was established in 1988, did not serve the public until after the World. Also founded in 1988, Panix was the third ISP.

11 1992 Corporation for Education and Research Network (CREN) released the World Wide Web. NSFNET is upgraded to Mbps.

12 1993 Marc Andeessen, NCSA, and the University of Illinois develop Mosaic for X, a graphical interface for the World Wide Web. Mosaic was the first widely used Internet browser.

13 1994 Pizza Hut offered online ordering through their website.

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14 1995 Pierre Omidyar released AuctionWeb, which later became ebay. The NSA, overwhelmed with new hosts, determined that as of 30 April 1995, they would no longer allow access to the NSF backbone. Instead, four providers could lease access.

15 1995 An annual fee was imposed for all domains, except those used by the government (.gov) or educational institutions (.edu).

16 1996 Internet2 is released. Internet2 is a network of research and educational institutions. Hotmail is launched. Microsoft bought Hotmail for $400 million the following year.

17 1998 Google receives funding from Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems) becoming Google Technology Incorporated.

18 1999 Wi-fi, wireless Internet technology, is standardised. Sean Fanning created and released his infamous Napster. He was 18.

19 2000 The Dot-com bubble burst, falling drastically after peaking at 5, on the NASDAQ.

20 2001 Wikipedia is launched, eventually changing from.com to.org.

21 2003 Apple launches the itunes Store with only songs. Within 24 hours, they d sold a quarter of a million songs.

22 2004 Flickr developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company as an image hosting and video hosting website, was launched in February 2004 and later acquired by Yahoo!.

23 2004 On 1 April 2004, Google announced the launch of Gmail, which would offer 1GB of storage. Because Hotmail and Yahoo! were only offering 2MB and 4MB respectively, some people thought it was an April Fool s joke.

24 2005 YouTube is launched revolutionising web-based videos. Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion the following year.

25 2006 Dom Sagolla released Twitter. Facebook, once exclusive to college students is made available to everyone.

26 2009 Mobile data traffic exceeded voice traffic every single month. Globally, mobile data exceeded an Exabyte (a billion gigabytes) for the first time.

27 Thank you for your patience

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