Timeline of popular Internet services

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2001

1998

1996

  • Ultima Online (UO), a graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).
  • Internet Archive is an archive of periodically cached versions of websites.

1995

  • Ebay is an auction and shopping website.
  • Wiki: A website that anyone can edit.

1994

1993

1992

  • HTML was developed by a British engineer, Tim Berners-Lee while working in CERN. This was devised so that reports from CERN, including photographs, graphs and tables could be shared (served) across the web.

1991

1990

1988

  • Internet Relay Chat (IRC): A form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message.

1986

1983

1982

1979

1978

By 1982 the Prestel system was used throughout the UK for online purchace of Books, shopping, holiday bookings etc. It used a 'page' system to navigate. Typing in the page number or clicking on the page number (Only Apple's Lisa computer had windows and mouse in 1982) took you to that page, like HTML's hyperlinks do today.

1973

1971

  • FTP: File Transfer Protocol
  • Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works.

1969

  • Telnet: A system for logging in, over a network, to a computer situated in another location.
  • ARPANET connected Stanford research Institute in Santa Barbara to the University of Utah, the internet was born, although the first attempt actually crashed on the 'g' of the word 'Login
  • 1960s
  • Email: Electronic mail applications are developed on timesharing main frame computers for communication between system users.
  • The beginning of the internet can be traced back to 1962, when the RAND (America's military think tank) tackled the problem of how they could communicate in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, their thinking was prompted by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1 comments:

JS Grame-Smith said...

Its surprised numbers of the hacking history.

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