| Right now, in this day and age, the internet | | | | developed for the military to exchange |
| encompasses many aspects our lives, crossing | | | | information. It sent data in packets, much like |
| many categories that are not even related in the | | | | what the current internet does! Four nodes in |
| slightest. Research work? Not a problem. Want to | | | | different universities formed this primitive |
| buy groceries? Order online. Music? We have | | | | network. If ARPANET had not worked, the |
| download sites everywhere. Planning your | | | | internet could have been set back another |
| overseas honeymoon in a luxurious hotel? Open a | | | | decade. |
| browser and find a deal. Moving to another | | | | 4. E-mail is invented. 1971 marked an important |
| country? Look up requirements in Google, and | | | | year for the internet, with the creation of e-mail, |
| forums on that country while you're at it. Need to | | | | sending letters across the internet. It is still a |
| know the weather? Check out weather sites to | | | | mainstay in internet communications, and will |
| zap that info directly on your desktop. | | | | probably be used throughout a person's internet |
| In this world of such convenience, sometimes we | | | | life. |
| have to look back to see what started it all. So | | | | 5. International networks. 1973 saw the first |
| here are, for me, the most important moments | | | | international internet connection. At around this |
| of the internet, ones that changed the lives of | | | | time, Ethernet, gateway protocols, and FTP are |
| people everywhere. | | | | invented. It became apparent that you can |
| 1. Invention of the Telegraph and Telephone. | | | | connect computers on a global scale! 1976 further |
| Samuel Morse invented the telegraph that was | | | | cemented this, as networking spread to more and |
| quickly adopted by America for practical use. | | | | more computers. |
| Alexander Graham Bell officially invented the | | | | 6. Internet boom. At around 1983-1984, a large |
| telephone as we know it today, successfully | | | | number of nodes were created because of name |
| testing it in March 10, 1876. Why is this a defining | | | | servers and DNS, using names instead of |
| moment? These two devices were the first ones | | | | numbers which made it easier to remember and |
| ever to send information over a distance quickly. | | | | communicate with. Another reason for the boom |
| The phone lines and cables that resulted still form | | | | was the spread of desktop computers, enabling |
| an important backbone to the internet today. | | | | more people to connect. |
| Phones also convert an electronic signal to an | | | | 7. World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee released the |
| analog one, the basis of modems. | | | | WWW as we know it, which provided easy |
| 2. Launch of Sputnik 1. This USSR craft launched | | | | information to anywhere in the world with much |
| on October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite. It | | | | simpler methods. Browsers came out. Multimedia |
| was the dawn of global telecommunications. | | | | is released a year later. |
| Satellites today transmit all kinds of data all over | | | | The internet took almost a century to finally |
| the world, including the internet! | | | | morph into what we know today. It's amazing |
| 3. Creation of ARPANET. Known as the | | | | how progress works, indeed. |
| predecessor of the internet, ARPANET was | | | | |