Internet History
| Internet | A single person did not create the Internet. Below is a listing of different people who have helped contribute to and develop the Internet. The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock on May 31, 1961. In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider gave his vision of a galactic network. Also with ideas from Licklider, Kleinrock & Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network that later became ARPANET. |
| Network Equipment | On August 29, 1969, the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called “IMP” (Interface Message Processor) are sent to UCLA. On September 2, 1969, the first data moves from the UCLA host to the switch. The connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered the first Internet backbone. The first message to be distributed was “LO”, which was an attempt at “LOGIN” by Charley S. Kline to log into the SRI computer from UCLA. |
| Ray Tomlinson sends the first network e-mail in 1971. It’s the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users. | |
| Telnet | A commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telnet, is introduced in 1974 and considered to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP). |
| Ethernet | Bob Metcalfe develops the idea of Ethernet in 1973. |
| Modem | strong>Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington released the 80-103A Modem in 1977. The Modem and their subsequent modems become a popular choice for home users to connect to the Internet and get online. |
| TCP | Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675. Most people consider these two people the inventors of the Internet. |
| TCP/IP | In 1978, TCP splits into TCP/IP, driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. The creation of TCP/IP help create UDP and is later standardized into ARPANET on January 1, 1983. Today TCP/IP is still the primary protocol used on the Internet. |
| DNS | Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS in 1984, which also introduces the domain name system. The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, is registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. |
| Dial-Up ISP | The first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the US, known as “The World”, is introduced in 1989. The World was the first ISP to be used on what we now consider to be the Internet. |
| HTML | In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, which made a huge contribution to how we navigate and view the Internet today. |
| WWW | Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6,1991. The World Wide Web (WWW) is what most people today consider the “Internet” or a series of sites and pages that are connected with links. The Internet had hundreds of people who helped develop the standards and technologies used today, but without the WWW, the Internet would not be as popular as it is today. |
| Graphical Internet Browser | Mosaic is the first widely used graphical World Wide Web browser developed and first released on April 22, 1993 by the NCSA with the help of Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. A big competitor to Mosaic was Netscape, which was released a year later. Today, most of the Internet browsers we use today, e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc., got their inspiration from the Mosaic browser. |
| Java and JavaScript | Originally known as oak, Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. It was first introduced to the public in 1995 and today is widely used to create Internet applications and other software programs.JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich in 1995 and originally known as Live Script. It was first introduced to the public with Netscape Navigator 2.0 and was renamed to JavaScript with the release of Netscape Navigator 2.0B3. JavaScript is an interpreted client-side scripting language that allows a web designer the ability to insert code into their web page. |
