SEVEN SIGNIFICANT STEPS: HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
May 5th 2009 14:48
In just four decades, the internet has gone from zero to linking the entire planet. Here are some keystone markers along the way.
1969
The earliest form of internet is created by the US Department of Defense (DoD), by networking together computer systems at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, called ARPAnet.
1974
TA commercial version of ARPAnet is opened, called Telnet, following experimental international 40-machine linkups two years before.
1980
Bill Gates makes a deal to include a Microsoft OS (Operating System) on IBM computers. This paves the way for the later Windows OS and our present-day near-universal computer use.
1984
Apple launches the first successful Graphical User Interface (GUI) computer interface using on-screen graphics that represent files and folders. Also featured are drop-down menus and the first computer mouse, for control in addition to a keyboard.
1989
Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web (www), with browsers, pages and links to make communication between computers linked by the internet quick and easy.
1996
Google begins as a research project at Stanford University, US. The company is formally founded two years later by Sergey Brin and Larry Page - today Google’s search facilities make it a master of the internet, and a massive company, valued at near the $130 billion mark.
2009
British scientist Dr Stephen Wolfram launches Wolfram Alpha (WA), a search engine that provides conceptual relationships in its results. WA may prove to be the ‘next step’ in the evolution of the internet.
1969
The earliest form of internet is created by the US Department of Defense (DoD), by networking together computer systems at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, called ARPAnet.
1974
TA commercial version of ARPAnet is opened, called Telnet, following experimental international 40-machine linkups two years before.
1980
Bill Gates makes a deal to include a Microsoft OS (Operating System) on IBM computers. This paves the way for the later Windows OS and our present-day near-universal computer use.
1984
Apple launches the first successful Graphical User Interface (GUI) computer interface using on-screen graphics that represent files and folders. Also featured are drop-down menus and the first computer mouse, for control in addition to a keyboard.
1989
Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web (www), with browsers, pages and links to make communication between computers linked by the internet quick and easy.
1996
Google begins as a research project at Stanford University, US. The company is formally founded two years later by Sergey Brin and Larry Page - today Google’s search facilities make it a master of the internet, and a massive company, valued at near the $130 billion mark.
2009
British scientist Dr Stephen Wolfram launches Wolfram Alpha (WA), a search engine that provides conceptual relationships in its results. WA may prove to be the ‘next step’ in the evolution of the internet.
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