Timeline of the Internet
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Updated: 1 Apr 2021
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Created byMateo Villegas
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ARPA is created to stay ahead of the sovietsArpa is being repurposed to be a network called "ARPNET" and ARPANET gets its communications upgrading from with packet switchingStanford becomes the official record keeper for everyone's addresses.Around this time, multiple others networks were being developed all around the world to rival ARPANET.The issue of different types of packets being formatted differently would be solved but not yet implemented until the early 80s.Email is inventedDNS is inventedThe Department of Defense handed over the responsibility of maintaining ARPANET to the NSF.NSFNET oficially replaces ARPANETNSFNET tries connecting some of the private networks' email servers to the internet.NSFNET shut down and handed everything over to the ISPsThe World Wide Web is invented by Tim Berners-lee and Robert Caillou for Cern UseThe first web browser is created, "Netscape Navigator"Periods
Colleges starting to separate their computer terminals (Early versions of cloud computing)Some companies were selling access to networksFirst ISPs being created around this time
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