The first invention that had been created was telegraph. The creator who got the idea to invent this cool stuff is Baron Pavel L'vovitch Schilling, also known as Pavel Schilling. The telegraph was invented in 1840s then this telegraph was used extensively by the U.S. Government during the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865. The telegraph used morse code consisted of dots, dashes, short and long signal.
So up until now, we haven't yet define what is it exactly an Internet. Then what is its definition? The Internet.
The internet is a network of networks, joining many computers together and providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail, bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents, databases and other computational resources.
Characteristics of the Internet?
The largest network of networks in the world
Uses TCP/IP protocols and packet switching
Runs on any communications substrate
Brief history of the internet
1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create ARPAnet
1970 - First five nodes:
- UCLA
- Stanford
- UC Santa Barbara
- U of Utah, and
- BBN
1974 - TCP specification by Vint Cerf
1984 – On January 1, the Internet with its 1000 hosts
converts en masse to using TCP/IP for its messaging
Evolution of the Internet
| Year | Achievement |
| 1945 | Memex Conceived |
| 1948 | A Mathematical Theory of Communication |
| 1958 | Silicon Chip |
| 1962 | First Vast Computer Network Envisioned |
| 1964 | Packet Switching Invented |
| 1965 | Hypertext Invented |
| 1969 | ARPANET |
| 1972 | TCP/IP Created |
| 1984 | Internet Named and Goes TCP/IP |
| 1989 | WWW Created |
| 1993 | Mosaic Created |
| 1995 | Age of e-Commerce Begin |
for an interactive view on the evolution of the web, click here
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