The internet began in the 1950s with the development of computers and early research into packet switching, allowing point-to-point connections between machines. In 1965, the first connection between computers across long distances occurred between a Massachusetts and California computer over telephone lines. Email was then invented, allowing people on the ARPANET to communicate electronically. By the 1990s, as interest grew for home internet access, technologies like DSL and services from companies allowed more widespread adoption and led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1991, enabling new forms of information sharing through hyperlinks. Today, with faster and more accessible internet, social networking and collaboration sites dominate as people of all ages rapidly share interests globally.

1. Internet History Quanisha Porter-Rhodes

2. Start of Internet The internet started in 1950 with the development of the computer. Which began with point-to-point communications between mainframe computers and terminals and it expanded point-to-point connections between computers and the early research into packet switching.

3. Connection Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines.

4. E-mail People from the ARPANET started using the internet more and email was invented and people were able to communicate through emails. Larry Roberts writes first email management program (RD) to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages. (1972)

5. SPAM!! The first commercial spam message was sent. (1978) Now they run through our computers everyday and end up giving viruses

6. DSL DSL originally stood for Digital Subscriber Loop dsl was made in 1990 as more people got more interested in having a computer in their homes. Traditional dial up companies (CompuServe, America Online) begin to provide internet access (1995)

7. WWW. Berners-Lee and others proposed a new protocol for information distribution. This protocol, which became the World Wide Web in 1991, was based on hypertext. in 1996 microsoft become popular in the network 12.8 Million Hosts, 0.5 Million WWW Sites.

8. Internet Today As the Internet has become faster, and increasingly accessible to non-technical communities, social networking and collaborative services have grown rapidly, enabling people to communicate and share interests in many more ways. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, wikis, and many more let people of all ages rapidly share their interests with others everywhere.

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