History Of Internet

The history of the internet

1964:

The idea

Paul Baran lays the

theoretical foundation

for the Internet with his

treatise “On Distributed

Communication.

1969:

The forerunner

The USA starts the first big

test: Arpanet goes online. It

only connects four research

institutes with each other

1978:

New network standard

The IPv4 protocol, which is used

even today, is introduced. With

it, computers can be identified by

their IP address.

1978

1984:

Sending emails

The American platform

CSNET sends the first

text message to Germany

on August 2, 1984. the

recipient is computer

scientist Werner Zorn at

the Karlsruhe University.

1989:

ISDN

ISDN is the highlight of

CeBIT. The cost for a

64 Kbps connection is

approximately Rs 2,600.

1989:

The www interface

British computer scientist Tim

Berners-Lee is the founder of the

modern Internet. He develops

HTML, the World Wide Web

service, and the first web server.

1988:

Internet relay chat

Finnish student Jarkko

Oikarinen first puts forward

the idea of chatting on the

Internet. The first system

was developed as early as

in 1981, as the computer

network BITNET.

1990:

Opening of the network

The outdated Arpanet is hopelessly

overloaded and is shut down.

NSF-NET (National Science

Foundation) takes its place and opens

the Net for commercial purposes for

the first time.

1994:

Netscape Navigator

Based on Mosaic, this

browser offers a lot of

functions for easy surfing

and becomes the market

leader within a year.

1995:

Online shops

The first shops go online.

Amazon, a small online book

dealer, is one of them. Today,

the company has a turnover

of about US$ 15 million.

1998:

Search engines

Some search engines, including

Yahoo and Altavista, have

already established themselves,

but in 1998, Google launches.

Today, it is one of the most

admired companies in the world

1999:

Online auctions

Bargain hunters and

private retailers

discover the Internet.

eBay begins to spread

its wings outside the US.

2000:

Dotcom bubble

There is an explosion

of start-ups, and stock

market hysteria ensues.

The firms cannot live up

to the high expectations,

and the market collapses.

1998

2001:

Peer to peer

File sharing becomes a popular

passtime. The program Napster

has up to 60 million users. The

first lawsuit breaks out and the

service temporarily goes offline.

2004:

Online games

World of Warcraft

brings the phenomenon

of online games to the

mass market. Today,

the game has about 12

million subscribers.

2005:

Web 2.0

Static homepages begin to

fade away and be replaced

by participative ones.

Sites such as YouTube and

Wikipedia are the new

highlights on the Net.

2007:

The mobile net

Apple’s iPhone shows you how much fun

you can have while surfing on your cell

phone, for the first time. Competitors

follow suit, and the idea of a full mobile

2010:

Feature

phones are permanently

connected to the web.

Even TVs and home

appliances have Internet

connections—IPTV

slowly replaces classic

TV. Through cloud

computing, data can be

stored on the net and

the user can access it

from anywhere.