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Catching up on reading during the holidays? Feeling reflective or even nostalgic? Whether the season calls for sandals or snow boots, take a virtual step inside the evolution of the Internet.
You'll get a close-up view of the key people and developments that led us to where we are today.
Discover more than 80 curated milestones, illuminating five decades of pivotal innovations that changed our world.
Here's a small sampling:
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Ray Tomlinson's 1971 invention of email using the @ sign to separate the username and destination server, "user@host" launched the first email network, ARPANET, housed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency. |
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LISTSERV@BITNIC hosted email lists as of 1984, but as they became more popular, by 1986 the manual administration required threatened their viability. Eric Thomas, then an engineering student in Paris, invented LISTSERV software to automate mailing lists, and email groups and newsletters as we know them today began. |
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Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 as a platform for academic research collaboration and knowledge exchange. In 1990, Berners-Lee debuted the first web page and the first web server. |
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