USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) launches Sputnik first artificial earth satellite In response, the United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) military
US studying how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, in the event of a nuclear attack decentralized counter-attack
The first node is connected to the internet's military ancestor, ARPANET ARPANET was intended to be America's bomb-proof communications network at the height of the Cold War
Project Gutenberg to make copyright-free works electronically available. ◦ The first is the US declaration of independence ◦ Michael Hart
Bolt Beranek and Ray Tomlinson invent ◦ used ARPANET to send messages between sites ◦ Within a year, three quarters of ARPANET traffic is
University College of London becomes one of the first international connections to ARPANET
Internet newsgroups are born ◦ Rick Adams ◦ software enabling news transmission, posting and reading using internet
The first internet worm is unleashed ◦ Robert Morris ◦ infects about 6000 computers
Tim Berners-Lee and the team at CERN invent the World Wide Web ◦ made information easier to publish and access on the internet
Marc Andreesen launches the web-browser Mosaic. ◦ HTML tags and more sophisticated image capabilities. ◦ Mosaic was the first web browser ◦ Andreesen goes on to develop the Netscape web browser
Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web is renamed Yahoo!Yahoo!
Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com, an online booksellerAmazon.com Known as the “pioneer of ecommerce”
eBay is launched to enable Internet users to trade with each other. eBay
Google arrives. Google ◦ Google's simple design is soothing while existing search engines cram their pages with animated adverts.
Shawn Fanning launches Napster.Napster ◦ The peer-to-peer software enables internet users to swap MP3 music files stored on their computers and to find each other through a central directory ◦ Record labels are furious. By July 2001, they had effectively stopped Napster.
The dotcom bust. ◦ Many of these businesses failed to find a market and others realize they didn't have a business plan
As broadband becomes more popular, media companies start selling music and video online. ◦ Napster re-launches as a paid music download store. ◦ It's up against iTunes
What has happened since??? Give me Five examples of significant events or inventions in the advancement of the Internet or the World Wide Web since Write a paragraph for each event (complete sentences please). The paragraph should answer the following questions: ◦ What is the event? ◦ Who is responsible for the event? ◦ Why is it important? ◦ When did it take place?