Recent Event Highlights: HTML Tags Introduced/mosaic web-browser introduced, First Apple Computer Created, ARPANET is created, and 23 more...
Created by scolin on Apr 12, 2011
Last updated: 04/19/11 at 12:18 PM
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Mr. Ostrander's 8th hour US history class is in awe of the fantastically epic timeline Bridget and Lindsey created using all internet resourses. The class then plays a fun and educational game brought to them by www.classtools.net http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz
Facebook reaches 400 million Users(that's larger than the population of the US and UK combined) Photo curtesy of http://technorati.com
Austin Kutcher becomes first person with 1 million followers to his tweets on twitter Photo curtesy of http://www.igary.tv
Jake Sheng becomes first person on Ebay with over a one million feedback rating Photo curtesy of http://computer.howstuffworks.com
Twitter is launched by Jack Dorsey this social networking site limits blogs to 140 characters Photo curtesy of www.enernex.com
Mark Zuckerburg launches Facebook Photo curtesy of www.shinyshiny.tv
serves in the UK show that 58% of homes have a PC and 48% are connected to internet Photo curtesy of http://desikokar.com
recording companies manage to take Napster off the internet
founder Shawn Fanning releases Napster the free file sharing program launches on the internet allowing PC users to sharp mp3 files for free from there home computers (Recording companies furious) Photo curtesy of www.cellphonetrek.com
the smooth search engine released it based its searches on popularity rather than animated adverts Photo curtesy of www.marcgunther.com
Macromedia releases flash 1.0 which allowed web page animation Photo curtesy of www.realmagick.com
Amazon.com was founded as a bookstore by Jeff Bezos. The idea came about on a road trip with him and his wife from New York to Texas. Photo curtesy of http://images.businessweek.com
The Browser War is a metaphor to the rival of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Netscape's Web Browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer quickly took popularity over Netscape's Web Browser. Photo curtesy of http://ooglewindowblinds.com
Jerry Yang and David Filo founded "world wide web guide " renamed yahoo Photo curtesy of http://mooreslore.corante.com
Netscape's mosaic web browser introduced HTML picture tags which allowed more complex web browsing. Netscape founded by Marc Andreessen. Photo curtesy of http://images.businessweek.com
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) introduces the web browser WWW. This hyper-text allows documents and other resources to be linked together by hyperlink and URLS. This is the application that currently runs the internet. Photo curtesy of http://archivesmb.wordpress.com
Robert Tappan Morris, a graduate student at Cornell University, creates a program meant to measure the size of the internet. Without testing it on a simulator, he released it to the public. It infected 10% of the world's internet servers causing them to give a "denial of service" message to those using the computer. Morris was charged and given 3 years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $10,000. Photo curtesy of www.nndb.com
Paul Mockapetris invents DNS (Domain Name System). DNS begins to assign extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu. Photo curtesty of www.isu.edu
Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine of Stanford University create the term "internet" as a short form of the word "internetwork"
Larry Landweber of the University of Wisconsin Madison creates a telemail system known as Theorynet to connect researchers in the computer science field at 15 other unverisites to the researchers that the University of Wiscosin Madison. Photo curtesy of www.uwebc.org
Ray Tomilson creates a file transfer program known as CPYNET and shortly afterwards a delivery program called SNDMSG. He put two and two together and sent the message "qwertyuiop" (the letters of the top column of the keyboard) and thereby sent the first e-mail. He also was the first to use the @ symbol to distinguish the sender from the reciever. Photo curtesy of www.observer.com
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create thier first product, the Apple 1. This is the first comercially available personal computer. The case, keyboard, power supply, and display all had to be provided by the user. It cost $666.66. Photo curtesy of www.cedmagic.com
Queen Elizabeth the Second of England sends her first e-mail from an Army base. No information was released on what the e-mail was about or who it was sent to was ever released but she was the first state leader to send an e-mail. Photo curtesy of www.librarising.com
The first international ARPANET connection is made from the United States to NORSAR in Norway. Shortly afterward the connection from the United States to the University College of London in England is also created. ARPANET has 2000 users and e-mail is gaining popularity. Picture curtesy of www.dirtygarnet.com
ARTANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the first packet switching network, which meant people were,for the first time, able to share information through a data network. AT&T telephone comany helped establish kbps lines and the first multinode model which allowed more than one person to access this information at the same time. Picture curtesy of www.livinginternet.com
J.C.R. Licklider writes a comprehensive paper on what is now know as AI or "artificial intelligence". In this paper he speculated that someday human brains and computing machines would work together in the problem solving process and create a subclass of man-machines. This is considered to be the origanal idea for the internet. Photo curtesy of scopeweb.mit.edu
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