50 Years of the Internet
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50 Years of the Internet
By Charlie Oliver
1960s
• 1969: The ARPANET – First version of Internet by American Defence Agency
• Why? To protect America from nuclear threats
• Only four small groups of computers networked for the first time
1970s
•1972: First email sent. Ray Tomlinson wrote the email program.
• @ symbol introduced for the first time
• 1978: The first SPAM email message was sent to 320 people on the ARPANET network.
1980s
• 1982: Smileys (emoticons) were introduced
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▲1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide
web
1990s
• 1994 Yahoo kicks off the first internet email website
• 1995 Amazon.com and eBay become first online shops
• 1996: Internet Explorer and Netscape compete to be top internet browser
1998:
• Charlie Oliver is born
• And so is Google
• 2001 Wikipedia is introduced
• 2004 Broadband becomes more used than dial up More than 1 million searches on Google each day
• 2008: 71% of businesses say they can’t survive one day without the internet
Today:
• There are over 100 million websites
• 75% are businesses
• One out of five people access the internet
The Future ?
Connecting through wireless will make the internet even faster
•New kinds of computers and programs will make people even more connected through the internet
And here is a brief but funny video I got from
the internet.
Enjoy!