The History of the Internet

Internet has been one of the most important tools in our century. We will take a look in its history behind.

1957-02-01 00:00:00

Global Communications

U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite and, with it, global communications.

1957-02-21 21:11:10

Time-sharing

Computers had to be stored in special cooled rooms, which developers couldn’t work directly on the computers. A remote connection had to be installed so the developers could work directly on the computers. The idea of time-sharing came up. Time-Sharing is to share the processing power of one computer with multiple users.

1958-02-01 00:00:00

DARPA

In response to Sputnik launch, the United States forms the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) in order to secure America’s lead in science and technology. The DARPA planned a large-scale computer network in order to accelerate knowledge transfer and avoid the doubling up of already existing research. This network would become the ARPANET.

1958-02-21 21:11:10

Bell Labs Invents Modem

Bell Labs researchers invent the modem, which converts digital signals to electrical signals and back, enabling communication between computers, which this represents the first system that works like the Internet.

1961-02-01 00:00:00

Packet Switching Theory

Leonard Kleinrock introduces the concept of packet-switching in his Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis about queueing theory. Leonard Kleinrock was the Professor of computer science at UCLA, former director of the ARPAnet Network Measurement Center, chairman and founder of Nomadix Inc.

1963-03-03 08:04:13

ASCII Is Developed

A joint industry-government committee develops ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the first universal standard for computers. ASCII permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.

1965-11-17 16:57:37

PDP-8

The PDP-8 was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is the first commercially successful minicomputer. It was small enough to sit on a desktop; it was selling for $18,000. People used in thousands of manufacturing plants, offices, and scientific laboratories because its combination of speed, size, and cost. story info here

1967-02-01 00:00:00

Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET)

As ARPA director, Charles Herzfeld approves funding to develop a networking experiment that would tie together multiple universities funded by the agency. Furthermore three other concepts were to be developed: •RAND Corporation: The concept of military network in America •National Physical Laboratory (NPL): The commercial network in England. •CYCLADES: The scientific network in France. Because the less budget that ARPANET thus also fewer nodes, the focus was layed on the communication with other networks. In this way the term “inter-net” was born. The scientific, military and commercial approaches of these concepts are the foundations for out modern Internet.

1969-02-01 00:00:00

Packet Switching

Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology (new at the time). Packet Switching was created in order to avoid congestion of the lines; the sent files were divided into smaller packets.

1971-01-01 00:03:50

Birth of the eBook

The Project Gutenberg is a global effort to make books and documents in the public domain available electronically–for free–in a variety of eBook and electronic formats. When Michael Hart, an American author and programmer, gained access to a large block of computing time, he realized that the future of computers wasn’t in computing itself, but in the storage, retrieval and searching of information that, at the time, was only stored in libraries. He launched Project Gutenberg to make information contained in books widely available in electronic form.

1972-01-01 00:03:50

Interface Message Processor (IMP) Network Grows

The IMP took control of the network activities while the mainframe was only in charge of the initialization of programs and data files. Fifteen nodes (23 hosts) comprise the IMP network. UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames.

1972-01-01 00:03:50

Ray Tomlinson Invents Email

Ray Tomlinson, a US programmer, wrote the email program to send messages across a distributed network. It is Tomlinson who developed the ‘user@host’ email standard. The "@" sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails.

1979-02-01 00:00:00

MUD

Before there was World of Warcraft and Second Life, Mud was developed in 1979 (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. This was the beginning for today’s computer gaming.

1989-03-17 14:40:33

World Wide Web

1989 brought about the proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee. The term "World Wide Web" was coined while Berners-Lee was writing the code in 1990. In 1991 The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet. The first web page was created; it was one of the major innovations to the world of the Internet. The WWW came into the world and the growth of the Internet exploded like a supernova. What had been doubling each year now doubles in three months. What began as an ARPA experiment has, in the span of just 30 years, become a part of the world’s popular culture.

1990-03-17 14:40:33

The ARPANET and Mp3

ARPANET formally shuts down. In twenty years, ‘the net’ has grown from 4 to over 300,000 hosts. Also in the same year the MP3 file format was accepted as a standard in 1991. MP3 files, being highly compressed, later become a popular file format to share songs and entire albums via the internet.

1993-03-17 14:40:33

MOSAIC

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) releases the first widely downloaded Internet browser called Mosaic, it was released in 1993. The Mosaic browser helped popularize the World Wide Web among the general public. Twenty years after the introduction of Mosaic, the most popular contemporary browsers, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, iOS Safari, and Mozilla Firefox have many of the characteristics of the original Mosaic graphical user interface (GUI), such as the URL bar and forward/back/reload buttons, and interactive experience.

1995-03-17 14:40:33

Commercialization of the internet

1995 is often considered the first year the web became commercialized. The SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption was developed by Netscape, making it safer to have financial transactions (like credit card payments) online. As well, two major online businesses got their start the same year. The first sale on "Echo Bay" was made that year. Echo Bay later became eBay. Amazon.com also started in 1995, though it didn’t turn a profit for six years, until 2001. This became as revolutionary and new way of shopping almost anything from the comfort of your house.

1998-02-01 22:26:25

Google!

Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online. The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world and to process over one billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day.

1998-03-17 14:40:33

Blogs First Appear

This new feature of the internet aloud anyone to share their stories, knowledge, experiences any information that any human being would like to share with the rest of the world. The advantage of this is that the information posted is not always true and reliable.

2001-02-01 22:26:25

Wikipedia is Launched

Wikipedia launched in 2001, one of the websites that changed the way for collective web content generation/social media. Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively help to write Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.4 million in the English Wikipedia. Anyone who can access the site can edit almost any of its articles, which on the Internet comprise the largest and most popular general reference work. The pros are that almost anything you would like to learn about is in this web page and you can access to it everywhere at any time with a computer and internet. The cons are that because anyone has access to edit the info, the information is not always reliable.

2004-11-15 08:34:52

Facebook

Facebook is an online social networking service, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook". This became one of the most used tools in the Internet allowing people to communicate and share things around the world, things including personal pictures, videos, personal opinions and personal information. The pros of Facebook better and broad network allowing better communication, for example, bad news get to people faster in Facebook than TV. As well is great tool to promote business and campaigns. The cons are that Facebook has caused a huge negatively impact in human relationships, as well people use Facebook for entertainment uses, which leads to tons of waste of hours doing nothing but just navigating through Facebook.

2007-03-29 20:31:11

Iphone

The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007; the most recent iPhones, the seventh-generation iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, were introduced on September 10, 2013. An iPhone can shoot video, take photos, play music, send and receive email, browse the web, send texts, GPS navigation, tell jokes, record notes, do mathematical calculations, and receive visual voicemail. Other functions — video games, reference works, social networking, etc. — can be enabled by downloading application programs (‘apps’); as of October 2013, the App Store offered more than one million apps by Apple and third parties. Basically it is a computer smaller that your hand. Today’s IPhones are more powerful that computers 20 years ago.

2014-03-29 20:31:11

Bonus Points

The guy in the phono is the Actor Michael Caine. He plays the cockney spy Harry Palmer in the 1967 movie "Billion Dollar Brain." A Honeywell computer, like one that the UCLA team used to connect to ARPANET, is the basis of a huge film set at Pinewood Studios.

The History of the Internet

Launch
Copy this timeline Login to copy this timeline 3d Game mode

Contact us

We'd love to hear from you. Please send questions or feedback to the below email addresses.

Before contacting us, you may wish to visit our FAQs page which has lots of useful info on Tiki-Toki.

We can be contacted by email at: hello@tiki-toki.com.

You can also follow us on twitter at twitter.com/tiki_toki.

If you are having any problems with Tiki-Toki, please contact us as at: help@tiki-toki.com

Close

Edit this timeline

Enter your name and the secret word given to you by the timeline's owner.

3-40 true Name must be at least three characters
3-40 true You need a secret word to edit this timeline

Checking details

Please check details and try again

Go
Close