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Created to treat technology and military deficiencies. Enabled computer communication through the US. Back bone of the internet, core. Starts with a "four-node network" to gradually include universities and government institutions. -
This email was sent from MIT from a super computer called the IBM-7094 -
Created for computer inter-connection by Len Lleinrock. -
Presented at the ICC Conference featuring terminals that can access computers cross country. First internet app, Email integrated to the FTP. -
TCP/IP development provides standards for error-free data transmission (TCP) and identifying networked destinations (IP). ARPANet gets popularized and divided from the military. Military goes to Milnet. -
It establishes the fundamental standards that the internet still has up to date. Domain Name System is created to automate the managing of names and addresses on the network. NSFnet substitutes ARPAnet. -
Internet hosts go above 10k, Paul Mockapetris creates DNS the online registry for computer domain. -
This worm shows the vulnerability of the internet. It infects 10 percent of connected machines, slowing them down. Cybersecurity is now a global concern. CRT is created. -
The "Big Three" online service providers. The introduction to dial-up messaging, email, and web portals. There is 50 million networks, 4 million systems, 70 million users and the internet goes commercial. -
ARPANet gets disconnected it get replaced by the WWW -
Tim Berners develops the WWW prototype, an app layer that runs on top of the internet based on hypertext. It results in a system for accessing resources online using (web address URLs), the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML). -
CERN officially publishes the WWW. It's the first web browser to display images next to text, letting users easily navigate between web pages. -
Marc Andeersen creates Mosaic a program that lets you navigate internet easily. Later it transforms to Netscape the first internet navigator. Internic is also created, first internet administrator center. -
Amazon - "first and biggest online store" (specializes in books at that time), Yahoo, and eBay - "first online bid market" launch. Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer, this creates the first browser war. Craigslist begins as an email distribution list.
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Netscape develops JavaScript, a programming language that runs in browsers to display dynamic content, making interactive web pages possible. -
First Blogs are created and published. -
The US Congress passes the Act to regulate indecency and obscenity online. The act includes Section 230, which protects “interactive computer services” from being treated as the publisher of third-party content and grants immunity from civil liability if the services make a good faith effort to restrict prohibited material. No one can control the network. -
This is to impose digital censorship within its borders, establishing a model for other national governments to claim sovereignty over the internet and attempt to limit the flow of information. -
Netscape releases the source code of its browser suite, creating the Mozilla. This inspires open source software creation. Later that year, Google is founded, innovating the business of search and clicks. -
Napster (1999)- the music giant is created and bit-torrent (2001) - the online powerhouse get published. -
The biggest online encyclopedia gets created. -
Symmetric key encryption algorithm that was created by Belgian cryptographers Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen. It replaces the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which was adopted in 1977 but had become vulnerable to attacks. -
The first ever social media app in the world is created. -
A new era of social media is created on the internet. -
The biggest online video giant is first crafted. This is the biggest video and media content app in the internet to date. -
The biggest company in archives and media transfer, download, upload is created. Their main office is in HK. Internet is now viewed as a threat by TV and Music industries because of the scope and content. -
Cloud computing allows for easy data storage, access, and processing, supporting the mobile web revolution under way. -
Data centralization brings security and privacy challenges also. YouTube was about a year old when it was bought by Google. Twitter launched means a whole new competition for social media acceptance and features implementation. -
The biggest micro-blogger platform emerges. -
This phone quickly evolves into a dominant platform of the mobile web. The transition to mobile creates more access, more apps, and more data; as well as increased privacy and surveillance issues. -
Kindle is the biggest book manager ever created on that time. It is part of Amazon's retail efforts. -
Up to this date there's 63 million web pages published in the WWW. -
The FCC asserts these principles of an open internet, holding that internet service providers (ISPs) must offer equal access to all internet communications without favoring particular sites or services. -
There are 1,966,000,000 active users on the internet on this date. -
Facebook counts with 600 million accounts up to this date. It is now a social media giant. -
IPv6 is officially on trials for protocol exchange. IPv6, the most current version of Internet Protocol, supports 340 undecillion unique IP addresses. -
These files show how the NSA is monitoring the communications of US citizens with help from telecom firms, as well as surveilling online communications by tapping into the servers of internet companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo. The news also reveals the sharing of intercepted data across a global surveillance system. -
Building on the growth of blockchain protocols, advanced networks and new media growth have the potential to foster new, user-oriented service models that can replace surveillance capitalism and create a more secure internet that redirects values and control to the public/ individuals.
