Early Stages of the Internet

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Early Stages of the Internet by Mind Map: Early Stages of the Internet

1. 1957 -- USSR was the first country to launch an artificial satellite into Earth's orbit

2. 1962 -- ARPA made a computer research program called the Information Processing Technologies Office

3. 1966 -- IPTO developed computer that could transmit information through telephone lines

4. 2002 -- Over 36 million users now are logged onto the internet everyday.

5. 1999 -- American Online bought the company NetScape.

6. 2000 -- Now more than half of the internet users in the world use the search engine Internet Explore by Microsoft.

7. 1969 -- Leonard Kleinrock made a computer capable of handling digital packet-switched data on a UCLA "host" computer.

8. 1971 -- There were 23 host computers available

9. 1994 -- Mosaic Communications was formed by Jim Clark and Andreessen

10. 1995 -- Microsoft company created its own search engine for the World Wide Web, Internet Explore.

11. 1975 -- This public network, called Telenet, began service in seven U.S. cities

12. 1991 -- Gopher, a search program, became accessible.

13. 1992 -- Two students made it easier to access information on the World Wide Web.

14. 1993 -- Mosaic Internet Program was finally free of cost. Thousands of people downloaded it.

15. 1982 -- The word internet began to be used for supernetwork