Events
Foundation in which the
global Internet was built
by Dr. Van HouwelingKilnam Chon, a Professor at Keio University
in Japan, develops the first Internet
connection in Asia, called SDN, and
his pioneering work inspires others
to promote the Internet’s regional growth.Toru Takahashi helps bring the Internet
to Japan and promotes it throughout
Asia in the 1990s. He is key to the early
commercial development of the Internet
in the regionMark Andreessen and Eric Bina
create the Mosaic browser at the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), which helps
popularize the World Wide Web
among the general public.The advent of web publishing tools
available to non-technical users spurs
the rise of blogs.Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia.
There are half a million Internet users.Ermanno Pietrosemoli secures the
world record for the longest WiFi
connection at 382 km.By 2010, there are over 450
million Chinese Internet users.USSR launches Sputnik into space and,
with it, global communications.Bell Labs researchers invent the
modem, which converts digital
signals to electrical signals and
back, enabling communication
between computers.The first universal standard for
computers, ASCII is developed
by a joint industry-government
committee. ASCII permits machines
from different manufacturers to
exchange data.Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Marill
get an ARPA contract to create the
first wide-area network connection
via long distant dial-up between a
TX-2 computer in Massachusetts
and a Q-32 computer in California.
The system confirms that packet
switching offers the most promising
model for communication between
computers.Robert Taylor initiates the ARPAnet project,
the foundation for today’s Internet.Danny Cohen develops the first
real-time visual flight simulator
on a general purpose computer
and the first real-time radar simulator.
His flight simulator work leads to the
development of the Cohen-Sutherland
computer graphics line clipping algorithms,
created with Ivan Sutherland.Robert Kahn demonstrates the
ARPAnet to the public for the
first time by connecting 20
different computers at the
International Computer
Communication Conference,
and in doing so, imparts the
importance of packet-switching
technology.
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