The History of the Internet:
When the USSR launced their first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit the U.S. responded by establishing the ARPA or Advanced Research Projects Agency. This was a team of the world's smartest people who began working on communication technology and computer networking. October 29, 1969 saw the very first connection of two computers on what would be one day be known as the internet. Two colleges, Standford and the Univeristy of California Los Angeles connected their computers using Arpanet, the first network ro run using packet switching technology. It is said that the link connecting the two colleges crashed as the letter "g" in "Login" was being sent across the network.
As the next decade came around, more and more advancements to the internet were being made. The PC Modem was one of these new developments and was only sold to computer hobbyists at first. Next came the bulletin board system as well as spam in 1978. The first multiplayer game was introduced in 1979 and was known as MUD or MultiUser Dungeon. Also introduced in 1979 was Usenet. Created by two young college students, Usenet gave people the opportunity to chat around the world by posting public messages. In 1982, the first emoticon :-) was used.
By 1987, the internet had grown to over 30,000 hosts with the adoption of the TCP/IP rather than the original Arpanet. In 1988, the first virus came about called the Morris Worm and real-time chat was developed as the basis for the instant messengers we use every day. Within the next year, Apple had developed America Online or AOL and the World Wide Web was officially coined. In 1991. the very first web page was created which was used to explain the WWW. Also developed in 1991 ws the MP3 file and the first webcam. 1993 was the year in which Mosaic was created as an internet browser. This paved the way for the Netscape Navigator which was introduced in the next year. Google, my personal homepage and go to search engine was first introduced in 1998 and became a perfect way to search for information online.
This blog was interesting to write about as our world revolves around the internet today. Some of it was kinda hard to understand as there were a lot of computer geeky kind of words used but I was able to get through it. All in all I was glad I chose to write about this.
Sources:
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/
http://www.netvalley.com/intval/07262/main.htm?sdf=1
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