The Beginnings of the Internet

1. 1962: ARPA creates Information Processing Technologies Office. This computer department was in charge of finding a way to share info between two computers.

2. 1966: IPTO starts to make a computer network that is able to transmit info over telephone lines using packet switching.

3. Early 1980s: Researchers at BBN design a way to connect networks between themselves.

4. 1980s: The internet is created.

5. 1991: Gopher is created. It organized information on the internet according to related topics.

6. 1992: Brewster Kahle invents the Wide Area Information Servers.

7. 1990: Tim Berners-lee invents the World Wide Web

8. 1992: The World Wide Web has around 50 sites already. These were made by mostly universities.

9. 1992: Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina invent a way to access the World Wide Web easier.

10. 1995: Microsoft invents its own web browser called Internet Explorer.

11. 2002: Over 36 million sites have been created.

12. 1994: Andreessen and Jim Clark invent Mosaic Communications. They create a web browser Mosaic Netscape.

13. 1995: After Microsoft invented their browser, Microsoft and Netscape were constantly competing for the best browser

14. 1957: Soviets launch first satellite.

15. 1969: Leonard Kleinrock installs the first computer processor that can handle digital packet-switched data.