The document outlines the history and development of the Internet and communication technologies from 1836 to the present, including key early inventions like the telegraph and telephone, the development of packet switching networks and ARPANET in the 1960s-1970s which led to the birth of the Internet, and important later developments like the creation of the World Wide Web in 1991 and advances in wireless technologies.

1. (1836) TELEGRAPH
(1858-1866)
TRANSATLANTIC CABLE
(1876) TELEPHONE
(1957) USSR launches
Sputnik
(1962-1968)
Packet-switching
networks developed
(1969) BIRTH OF THE
INTERNET
(1971) EMAIL
INVENTED
(1972) ARPANET
HISTORY OF THE INTERNET: TIMELINE
(1973)
Internet ideas started
(1976) Unix-to-Unix
CoPy
(1974) Packet Network
Intercommunication
(1977) THEORYNET
(1979) USENET;
Multiuser Dungeon

2. (1991) WORLD WIDE
WEB
(1992) Multimedia
(1996) Microsoft
(1999) Wi-fi
(2010) 4G Wireless
(2005) Laptops;
Netbook
Network
(2011) Multi-touch
technology begins to
appear in handheld
devices, tablet
computers, and
netbooks.