Timline of the internet.

1957-1981

It began with the launch of sputnik which was the first USSR satellite and goes on to talk of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) beginning to use email in 1972. A year later the term “Internet” comes into use and years later Comet, the first email corporation is created and launched. In 1981 Al Gore created the term “The Information Superhighway”

1982- 1994

The term “World Wide Web” is brought into use. The first web server on the internet was the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). Shortly after, there was the creation of the domain names (examples follow) - .com, .org, & .net etc…1993 had the most technological advances of all the years. The internet took off now having the very first commercial web browser. Internet is also differentiated from the World Wide Web as the internet is computer network consisting of more computer networks and the World Wide Web is also a computer network but consisting of websites.

1995-1997

There are one million internet users which will triple by 1998 and also the internet email service “Yahoo” is created.

1998-2005

The internet celebrated its 30^th anniversary and traffic of the internet is doubling every 100 days. Wikipedia is launched and 544 million people are now using the internet. Facebook & YouTube are founded and launched.

2006-2011

Twitter is founded in San Francisco and there is not 92 Million websites. By the 40^th anniversary of the internet there are nearly 1.9 billion internet users and in 2011 Facebook and twitter are the main communication of the internet.

Comments:

I found this website very useful and also interesting. I thought that some of the events listen were not exactly significant for example I didn’t feel it was necessary to need to know where “Twitter” originated from. There were a lot of facts that were very surprising as I did not know that Al Gore created the term “The Information Superhighway”. I was also unaware of the amount of internet users around the world. The timeline says that it reached 1.9billion in 2010 going up 0.3billion from the previous year so I can safely assume that in 2011 going into 2012 there will be approximately 2.6billion web users. This fact really interested me.

Overall I found the timeline very interesting and definitely something worth reading to brush up on your computer history. Here is a link to this webpage. http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/home/internet_timeline