1950s
J.C.R. Licklider, envisioned the idea that computers would allow for better communication if they were connected and were able to share information.
Internet History Timeline
The internet is considered a defining technology, it is a global network of computer-based communications tools. It enables millions of people with personal computers (PCs) to communicate, connect, and access information from all over the world instantaneously. The internet encompasses e-mails, newsgroups, chatrooms, and marketplaces. It has grown at a much faster pace than any other technologies like the telephone, automobile, or the printing press.
The Invention Timeline
J.C.R. Licklider, envisioned the idea that computers would allow for better communication if they were connected and were able to share information.
Soviet Union launched its first satellite, Sputnik.
U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Graduate student at MIT Leonard Kleinrock started applying queuing theory to data transmission and later implementing demand access and distributed control.
Paul Baran was assigned to the task of creating an indestructible communications network. He developed the concept of hot-potato routing, he then developed the idea of data being chopped into packets, each packet with a to and from address in the header.
Bob Taylor introduced the concept of resource sharing, connecting a single terminal to multiple heterogeneous computers within the same network in order to save time, money, and resources.
Lawrence Roberts designs the idea of smaller computers called Interface Message Processors (IMP) and packet switching to build the first computer network.
Frank Heart and his team from BBN built the first IMPs for the ARPANET and they were installed at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, and University of Utah School of Computing.
The ARPANET had 18 main framework computers in the network and Raymond Tomlinson created the first email program.
ARPA demonstrated the computer network in Washington DC.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP protocol and also developed the gateway that would interconnect each of the individual networks.
TCP/IP was adopted as the universal standard for the Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee developed a software that he then called the World Wide Web (WWW)
Congress passed a law for the Internet to become available to the public and there were 50 web pages on the Internet.
Marc Andreessen created the first user friendly browser to easily navigate the World Wide Web, Mosaic. The web grew by 341,000%