We have always been provided with brief histories of the Internet, stories of the Internet...all trying to explain how the Internet came about. But my focus is a different one.
I am simply talking about a summary that lists the Internet development time-line, and since I have just mentioned the word 'summary', I'll go direct to the point.
The Internet is the latest in the series of developments of how the human race has used technology to disseminate information. It is evident that many of the major advances, in the use of information, have happened within the last hundred years. This, I'm afraid, may prospect the difficulties in managing technological changes. But as far as the Internet is concerned, the likely or appropriate administrations are in place - so there is totally nothing to worry about.
Here goes the time-line:
What do you think?
Qn: This is just up to 2006, what about 2007 -2010?
I am simply talking about a summary that lists the Internet development time-line, and since I have just mentioned the word 'summary', I'll go direct to the point.
The Internet is the latest in the series of developments of how the human race has used technology to disseminate information. It is evident that many of the major advances, in the use of information, have happened within the last hundred years. This, I'm afraid, may prospect the difficulties in managing technological changes. But as far as the Internet is concerned, the likely or appropriate administrations are in place - so there is totally nothing to worry about.
Here goes the time-line:
- 1958 - US responds with ARPA when USSR launches Sputnik 1.
- 1961 - First paper on packet network switching theory.
- 1966 - First ARPAnet plan.
- 1969 - Node 1: UCLA (30th Aug, hocked up 2nd Sept), 4 nodes by December.
- 1973 - First International connections: University college, London and Royal Establishment (Norway). First e-mail.
- 1976 - Elizabeth II, Queen of the UK sends an e-mail.
- 1982 - TCP/IP protocol adopted, first definition of the Internet.
- 1984 - Domain Name System (DNS) introduced.
- 1985 - Symbolics.com becomes the first registered dot-com.
- 1987 - NFSNet backbone developed, upgraded to TI in 1988.
- 1988 - Early worm virus affects 6,000 of the 60,000 nodes, IRC developed.
- 1989 - Countries connected to NFSNet include: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Greece, India, Ireland, Korea, Spain, and Switzerland.
- 1991 - WWW released by CERN.
- 1992 - Surfing the Internet term coined.
- 1993 - WWW proliferates at 341, 634% annual growth rate of service traffic.
- 1994 - First malls, virtual bank, online pizza and SPAM.
- 1995 - Netscape floats and browser war ensues.
- 1997 - Web sites pass 1 million.
- 2002 - 2 billion indexed web pages on over 20 million websites.
- 2006 - Wide spread use of Blogs, RSS and Podcast.
What do you think?
Qn: This is just up to 2006, what about 2007 -2010?
"We may find that the more we succeed in removing barriers to the Internet Communications, the more we may help reduce those other, far more important obstructions to human communications - the one that divide nations and estrange demographic groups."
Vint Cerf
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