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Internet Timeline
Key Points of the Creation of the Internet
Created by
Zandher Salcedo
⟶ Updated 10 months ago ⟶
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Leonard Kleinrock pioneers Packet-Switching
ASCII Is Developed by a joint-industry government committee
Jon Postel helps create the first Internet Address Registry
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn publish a story about TCP and coin the term "Internet"
The First U.S. Research and Education Network is developed with the help of Dr. Stephen Wolff
Van Jacobson develops algorithms for the TCP that help solve the problem of congestion in the Internet
World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet
Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia; there were half a million internet users by this time
Ermano Pietrosemoli sets the world record for the longest wifi connection at 382 km
China dominates Internet Usage; 450 million users by this time
Blogs first start appearing as web-publishing tools start becoming available to non-technical users which help increase their popularity
MP3 is Developed by Bradenburg and his team
Donald Watts Davies of England publishes his paper on "packet-switching" where he also coins the term
Development will begin on what will eventually be called TCP/IP Protocol by a group headed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. This will allow diverse computer networks to communicate with each other
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Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation develops message blocks in the US while Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory in Britain creates a similar technology called packet-switching. These new technologies revolutionize data communications
