

This technology continues to have a large impact on how we navigate and view the internet today.ġ991: CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.ġ992: The first audio and video are distributed over the internet. (Image credit: Getty Images) 1990–2000ġ990: Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The internet is older than the World Wide Web (WWW). Cisco ships its first router.ġ989: becomes the first commercial provider of dial-up access to the internet. The NSFNET was essentially a network of networks that connected academic users along with the ARPANET.ġ987: The number of hosts on the internet exceeds 20,000. Over time the network speeds up and regional research and education networks, supported in part by NSF, are connected to the NSFNET backbone - effectively expanding the Internet throughout the United States. in Massachusetts, becomes the first registered domain.ġ986: The National Science Foundation’s NSFNET goes online to connected supercomputer centers at 56,000 bits per second - the speed of a typical dial-up computer modem. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, such as 123.456.789.10.ġ984: William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer," is the first to use the term "cyberspace."ġ985:, the website for Symbolics Computer Corp. TCP/IP remains the standard protocol for the internet.ġ983: The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar. This results in the fledgling definition of the internet as connected TCP/IP internets.

1980–1990ġ981: The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a grant to establish the Computer Science Network (CSNET) to provide networking services to university computer scientists.ġ982: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, emerge as the protocol for ARPANET. The term internet is born.ġ974: The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.ġ974: Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (the duo said by many to be the Fathers of the Internet) publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP.ġ976: Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.ġ979: USENET forms to host news and discussion groups. The Internet Working Group (INWG) forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.ġ973: Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. (Image credit: The Opte Project) 1970–1980ġ972: BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. Each line represents a path between two nodes in the internet backbone. Internet nodes are network connection points.
