1. 1836
Telegraph
• Human Telecommunications
• Used dots and dashes for communication.
1876
Telephone
• Serves as the backbone of today's internet.
• Conversion of data from digital to audio.
1957
Sputnik
• Starts of the Global Telecommunication.
• Established ARPA within DoD for military purposes.
1962 - 1968 Packet
Switching Networks
• Starts of the Global Telecommunication
• Dissemination of information in large scale quantity.
1969
Birth of Internet
• Four of the first nodes used in internet were developed.
• UCLA (Los Angeles), Standford Reasearch Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbara), U of Utah
1971
Email
• People can communivate through network.
• Another 15 nodes were developed.
1973
Global Networking
• First international network communication occured between London and Norway.
• Gateways were studied for a large scale cumminication.
1979
News Groups
• Collection of discussion groups were created.
• Any topics had their own news groups for specifications.
1981
Cooperative Network
• Collaboration of networking things together.
• BITNET joined with YALE and CSNET provides access to scientist who were prohibited to ARPANET.
1982
TCP & IP
• Connected sets of networks.
• Transmission Control Protocol and Intenet Protocol.
1983
Server & Desktop
• Name server was developed because of complexity.
• Desktop softwares were created.
1987
Commercialization
• Introduction of UUNET to commercials.
• 28 000 number of hosts.
1990
Expansion
• Over 300 000 Hosts and 1000 News Groups
• Searching and Retrieving file by name was developed.
1991
Modernization
• Allows indexing and accessing of information.
• Powerful keyword search has been created.
1992
Multimedia Invasion
• First MBONE audio multicast and video multicast were created.
• Term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.
1993
WWW Revolution
• InterNIC was created by NSF to provide specific internet services.
• Media and Business truly noticed the internet.
1996
Microsoft
• Microsoft enters the field of internet.
• Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology.
1999
WiFi
• Wireless Internet browsing has been developed.
• Built in feautures of most devices.
2010
4G
• High-speed internet connection.
• Built in feautures of most devices.
2011
• Internet invades education.
• Learning has become more progressive and productive.
Digital Literacy