internet timeline
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Updated: 18 Nov 2017
timeline of the internet's history
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Created byAhsan Durrani
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In 1969, Arpa built
a computer network called
Arpanet, which linked mainframes
at universities, government agencies,
and defense contractors around the
country.Bob Taylor convinced ARPA's Director
Charles M. Herzfeld to fund a network
project in February 1966, and
Herzfeld transferred a million
dollars from a ballistic missile defense
program to Taylor's budget.The first universal standard for computers, ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Exchange)
is developed by a joint industry-government committee.
ASCII permits machines from different to exchange data.Global networking becomes a reality
as the University College of London
(England) and Royal Radar Establishmen
(Norway) connect to ARPANET.
The term Internet is born.The first Internet Service Provider (ISP)
is born with the introduction of a commercial
version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.Queen Elizabeth II hits the
“send button” on her first email.Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite,
commonly known as TCP/IP, emerge as the
protocol for ARPANET. This results in the
fledgling definition of the Internet
as connected TCP/IP internets. TCP/IP
remains the standard protocol for the Internet.Netscape Communications is born.
Microsoft creates a Web browser for Windows 95.- Compuserve, America Online and Prodigy
begin to provide Internet access. Amazon.com
Craigslist and eBay go live. The original NSFNET
backbone is decommissioned as the Internet’s
transformation to a commercial enterprise is
largely completed.The first online dating site, Match.com, launches.The Google search engine is born,
changing the way users engage with
the Internet.The Internet Protocol version 6 introduced,
to allow for future growth of Internet Addresses.
The current most widely used protocol is version 4.
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses allowing for 4.3 billion
unique addresses; IPv6, with 128-bit addresses,
will allow 3.4 x 1038 unique addresses, or 340 trillion.Facebook goes online and the era of
social networking begins. Mozilla unveils
the Mozilla Firefox browser.YouTube.com launches.
The social news site Reddit
is also founded.The blog publishing platform
WordPress is launched.Web sites such as Yahoo! and eBay
are hit by a large-scale denial of
service attack, highlighting the
vulnerability of the Internet. AOL
merges with Time WarnerTwitter launches. The company's founder,
Jack Dorsey, sends out the very first tweet:
"just setting up my twttr."The social media sites Pinterest
and Instagram are launched.Twitter and Facebook play a large
role in the Middle East revolts.Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults report that
they bank online, according to a survey
conducted by the Pew Research Center.Instagram, the photo-sharing site,
reaches 400 million users, outpacing
Twitter, which would go on to reach
316 million users by the middle of the
same year.Google unveils Google Assistant, a voice-activated
personal assistant program, marking the entry of the
Internet giant into the "smart" computerized assistant
marketplace. Google joins Amazon's Alexa, Siri from Apple,
and Cortana from Microsoft.
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