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USSR launches Sputnik
Sputnik was the first satellite ever to be launched into space, and with it's launch came the start of a race between countries. The US, wanting to take the next step in this race, formed Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), which worked to create science and technology advances. -
ARPANET gets started
The first permanent link was created in 1969, and this small step foreshadowed the more prodding ARPANET would do into networking. -
Communication expansion
The E-mail is created, and along with that, virtual communication is slowly growing. In 1971, there were fifteen nodes on ARPANET. -
Transferring data with packets
The first public packet data service is established. This created a better form of transferring data virtually. -
E-mail become a hit
The communication E-mail provided became a huge success, and in 1977, rhe number of hosts broke a hutdred. -
Usenet established
Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis thought up the idea of creating discussion system that could be accessed worldwide. -
BitNet founded
In 1981, BitNet was founded by Ira Fuchs. It's first connection was between Yale and the City University of New York. The network provided electronic mail as well as a number of other things. -
Name server developed
The name server was developed, a system with a large number of nodes. Around the same time, the desktop work stations were created. -
Hosts growing
The number of hosts exceeds a thousand in 1984. Along with this swell of new users, the web becomes easier to use with the domain name server introduced -
Web goes public
The power of easy access to the internet goes more public than ever before when NSF creates five supercomputing centers. -
ARPANET closes
ARPANET was shut down by DARPA in 1990. The system wasn't any longer as effective as other networks running. In the same year though, the world goes on-line. -
Interface clean-up
A user friendly interface was set up for WWW. Mark P. McCahill led the development of Gopher. Paul Lindner was a co-worker of Mark and together they released the protocol of Gophen from Minnesota. -
Becoming popular
The internet starts booming with users. The number of hosts boils over two million. -
Domain names gain a fee
Domain names become no longer free in 1995. Along with that, new WWW technologies are being created, like JAVAscript, VRML and ActiveX. -
Booming WWW
At this time, the internet has become extremely popular and is being used by people worldwide. In 1997, there were nineteen million hosts and with that, around one million sites.
