History of the Internet

History of the internet: Timeline

This section is a summary of some of the material contained in Hobbes profits Timeline and also contains sources from Pros Online - Internet History, What is the Internet? and History of Internet and WWW : View from Internet v exclusivelyey and a variety of text books. Consult these source for more than detailed information.
1836
-- Telegraph. Cooke and Wheatstone patent it. Why is this pertinent?
 
* Revolutionised human (tele)communications.
* international Morse code Code a series of dots and dashes used to communicate amongst humans. This is not a million miles away from how computers communicate via (binary 0/1) data today. Although it is much slower!!
 
1858-1866
-- Transatlantic cable. Allowed direct fast communication across the atlantic. Why is this relevant?
 
* Today, cables connect all continents and are still a main hub of telecommunications.
 
1876
-- Telephone. Alexander whole wheat flour Bell Exhibits.
Why is this relevant?
 
* Telephones exchanges provide the backbone of Internet connections today.
* Modems provide Digital to Audio conversions to allow computers to connect everyplace the telephone network.
 
1957
-- USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. Why is this relevant?
 
* The start of global telecommunications.



Satellites play an important role in transmitting all sorts of data today.
* In response, US forms the ripe(p) Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to collapse US lead in science and technology relevant to the legions.
 
1962 - 1968
-- Packet-switching (PS) networks developed Why is this relevant?
 
* As we will go through later the Internet relies on packets to transfer data.
* The origin is military : for utmost security in transferring information of networks (no single outage point).
* information is split into tiny packets that may take different routes to a destination.
* Hard to eavesdrop on messages.
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