Internet History

Internet or stands of interconnected Network is a global communications system that connects the computers and computer networks around the world, which includes a variety of information resources ranging from a static to a dynamic and interactive.

History of the emergence and development of the Internet beginning on:

Year 1962

U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has decided to conduct research on how to connect a computer to form the organic network. This research program known as ARPANET, which no other to avoid the centralization of information at one point considered prone to be destroyed in the event of war. This method is expected if one section of tissue lost, the path through these networks can be automatically transferred to other channels.

Year 1970

Already more than 10 computers are successfully connected to one another so that they can communicate with each other and forming a network.

Year 1972

Roy Tomlinson managed to complete the e-mail program he created a year ago for the ARPANET. E-mail programs is so easy that instantly became popular. In the same year, @ icon also introduced as an important symbol that shows the "at" or "on".

Year 1973

ARPANET computer network were developed outside the United States. Computer University College in London was the first computer that is outside the U.S. who are members of the ARPAnet network. In the same year, two computer experts that Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf presented a bigger idea, which became the forerunner to the internet thinking. This idea was presented for the first time at the University of Sussex.

Year 1976

Precisely dated March 26, 1976, is a historic day, when the Queen of England managed to send an e-mail from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern. A year later, has more than 100 computers on ARPANET merged to form a network or networks.

Year 1979

Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis and Steve Bellovin, creating the first-named newsgroups USENET.

Year 1981

France Telecom to create a buzz by launching the first television telephone, which people can call each other while dealing with a video link.

Year 1982

Because the computers that form the network is becoming more and more, we need a formal protocol that is recognized by all networks. At this year established Transmission Control Protocol or Internet Protocol, or TCP and IP as we know it all. Meanwhile in Europe appear counter computer network known as Eunet, which provides computer network services in countries of Dutch, British, Danish and Swedish. Eunet network provides e-mail and USENET newsgroups.

Year 1984

For a uniform addresses in the existing computer network, the system introduced in this domain name, which we now know with the DNS or Domain Name System. Computers that are connected with the existing network has more than 1000 computers. In 1987 the number of computers that are connected to the network soared 10-fold more Manjadi 10 000.

Year 1988

Oikarinen of Finland's Jarko find and simultaneously introduce the IRC or Internet Relay Chat. A year later, the number of computers interconnected soared 10-fold return in a year. No fewer than 100,000 computers are now forming a network.

Year 1990

Is a most historic year, when Tim Berners Lee to find the program editor and a browser that can surf from one computer to another computer, which form a network. This is the program called www, or the worl Wide Web.

Year 1992

Computers that are connected to each other to form a network already exceeds a million computers, and the same year appeared the term surfing the internet.


Year 1994

Internet site has grown into a 3000 page address, and the first virtual-shopping or e-retail appear on the Internet. The world changed. In the same year Yahoo! Established, which is also well-born Netscape Navigator 1.0.

While the history of the Internet itself in Indonesia began in the early 1990s, when the Internet network in Indonesia is better known as a community network, where the spirit of cooperation, kinship and mutual assistance is very warm and felt among the perpetrators. Internet is somewhat different with Indonesia in its development atmosphere that feels more commercial and individual in some activities especially those involving Internet commerce. And can enjoy the new commercial Internet service in the years around 1994.

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