History of the Internet

1962- J.C.R. Licklider started to work on the idea of the internet

1965-Lawrence Roberts connected a computer from Massachusetts with a computer from California over dial-up telephone lines

1966- Robert developed a plan for a internet named ARPANET.

1969- ARPANET was brought online by ARPA

1969- The system crashed as Charley Kline reached the G in login

1960- In the late 1960’s libraries began automating and networking their catalogs

1972- Ray Tomlinson adapted e-mail for ARPANET

1978- UUCP was invented at Bell Labs

1981- BITNET connected computer mainframes around the educational community and provided e-mail all around the world

1986- National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as backbone for the Internet

1989- The first effort, other than library catalogs, to index the Internet was created

1989- Tim Berners-Lee and others proposed a new protocol for information distribution

1991- First really friendly interface to the Internet was developed

1992- Delphi opened up an email connection

1993- Delphi opened up a full internet connection

1993- Marc Andreessen and his team devewloped the graphical browser Mosaic

1993- Pentium microprocessor is released

1993- The Mosaic web browser is released

1994- Yahoo is founded by Jerry Yang

1994- Zip Disk is releasedd

1997- Peter Scott addeomega releases HyWebCat to provide information on web-based catalogs

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