Celebrating 40 years of Internet.
1969
On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, transmit pointless data in the first check of Arpanet, an experimental military network.
1972
Ray Tomlinson alot e-mail to the network, decided @ as a method to identify email addresses belonging to other systems.
1973
Arpanet acquire first universal nodes, in UK and Norway.
1974
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn built-up communications method called TCP, authorizing multiple networks to be connected to one another, inventing a true Internet.
1983
Domain name concept is designed. Choosing suffixes such as ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.gov’ and ‘.edu’ comes a year later.
1988
One of the first Internet virus, Morris, infected thousands of computers.
1990
Tim Berners- Lee invented the WWW (World Wide Web) while developing methods to manage computers remotely.
1993
Marc Andreessen and the colleagues at University of Illinois make Mosaic, the first Internet browser to merge graphics and content on a single page.
1994
Andreessen and his colleagues on the Mosaic team established a company to build up the first commercial Internet browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers make famous the world to Spam, marketing their green card lottery services.
1998
Google Corp. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government representatives oversight of domain name guidelines to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
1999
Napster make famous music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry.
2000
The dot-com explosion of the 1990s turned to a bust as technology companies slide.
2004
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook at Harvard University.
2005
Launch of YouTube video-sharing website.
2007
Apple introduced iPhone, introducing millions more to wireless Internet access.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:59 am
Cool, 40 years, not many people used it when it came out though!
September 1st, 2009 at 5:36 am
Wow, the internet does have a really amazing history which not many of us really know about! Very well researched and a really interesting article!
September 1st, 2009 at 6:26 am
Interesting history lesson. I’m just 39 years behind the times.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:17 am
interesting
September 1st, 2009 at 7:26 am
well researched and written , good going thanks for share
September 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am
nice and interesting,thanks to internet
September 1st, 2009 at 10:57 am
very interesting and informative, the internet has came a long way in such a short time
September 1st, 2009 at 1:29 pm
That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware of several of those points.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Very interesting and very informative article, thanks for sharing!
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 am
Amazing to see how Internet develop so quickly. Great post.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
Happy birthday internet!
September 9th, 2009 at 1:54 am
great news