History of the Internet

8/29/2017

Internet History:

1950s – Development of electronic computers

1960s & 1970s – development of information packet switching networks

1980s – development of the World Wide Web

1989/1990 – removal of restrictions on commercial traffic using the Internet

1993 – the Internet only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks

2000 - the Internet communicated 51% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks

2007 - the Internet communicated more than 97% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks

Today - the Internet continues to grow, driven by ever greater amounts of online information, commerce, entertainment, and -social networking.

History Details:

The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.

Packet switching networks such as the NPL network, ARPANET, Tymnet, Merit Network, CYCLADES, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s

In the 1980s, research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network.

Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities emerged in several American cities by late 1989 and 1990, and the NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.

In the 1980s, research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network. Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture, commerce, and technology, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone calls, two-way interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites.