History of the Internet with embedded video

1. THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
Mini Academy
September 19, 2011
Copyright Kallie Sulanke 2011

2. INTERNET TIMELINE
1836 1876 1969 1971 1983 1991 1996 1998 2004 2005 2007 2011
The first Google
email is introduces
sent www-dot its search The iPhone
web engine and mobile
address Internet is
are available
created
Internet
begins as Mini
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a Defense AOL has 10 Facebook
Wheatston Technology
project million is opened
e patent Club goes
the subscribers to college online.
telegraph students
Graham Desktop YouTube
Bell computers goes live
introduces are
the introduced
telephone

3. 1836 – INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH
 The telegraph allowed
people to communicate
quickly over long
distances.
 Prior to the telegraph
people had to rely on
letter which might take
weeks or even months
to get from on place to
another.
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5. 1876 - INVENTION OF THE TELEPHONE
 Alexander Graham Bell
introduced the first
telephone.
 It required an operator
to connect the lines.
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6. 1969 – THE INTERNET BEGINS
 The Internet began as Advanced Research Projects
Agency Network (ARPANET)
 The development was funded by the U.S.
Department of Defense.
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7. 1971 – THE FIRST EMAIL IS SENT
 The first email was
sent by Ray Tomlinson
from one computer to
the other.
 Tomlinson was the first
to use the @ symbol.
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8. 1983 - DESKTOP COMPUTERS
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9.  The first computers
were as large as rooms
and had no keyboards,
mice or monitors.
 Early desktop
computers, like this
Apple 2 gained
popularity in the early
eighties.
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11. 1991 – WWW-DOT WEB ADDRESSES
 What does www stand for?
 World Wide Web
 With the launch of www-dot web
addresses, browsing and posting to the Internet
became standardized.
 Developers embraced open-source code that could
be shared to create a greater web of information.
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14. 1998 - GOOGLE
 Many search engines
came before
Google, but they
entered the Internet
with a great product.
 From the
beginning, Google has
provided quick and
relevant search results.
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15.  Today Google does
much more than
search by key term. It
allows you to easily
search imagines, news
and shopping.
 Google as has
developed several
web-based applications
– from Google Docs to
Web developer tools.
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16. 2004 - FACEBOOK
 Facebook was started
as a school project in
2004.
 The site was designed
as a directory for
college students.
 Today more than 750
million people are on
Facebook. That’s more
than twice the
population of the U.S.
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17. 2005 - YOUTUBE
 YouTube was launched
in 2005 as a site to
share videos.
 Users share video
tutorials, music
videos, funny
videos, and more.
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19. 2007 - IPHONE
 Apply introduced the
iPhone in 2007.
 Prior to the
iPhone, Blackberry was
the primary data
phone. It was mostly
used by business
people.
 iPhone has expanded
the use of the Internet
to anytime, anywhere.
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20. 2011 – MINI ACADEMY
What will Technology Club bring to the Internet?
Only time will tell!
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21. SOURCES
 http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-
internet-in-a-nutshell/
 http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-
timeline-1.htm
 http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html
 http://history-
computer.com/Internet/Maturing/Tomlinson.html
 http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategoriz
ed/2008/06/20/mark1.jpg
 http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/hp/9830sm.jpg
 http://www.socialmediaguy.com/wp-
content/uploads/2008/07/picture-2.png
 http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/iphone-parallels.jpg
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