1971 @ Ray Tomlinson设计了 arpanet中的电子邮件。 用@分割用户的名字和他们计算机的名字
1971 古腾堡项目 Michael Hart开始一个将超过版权保护期的作品电子化的项目。最初的文字是美国《独立宣言》,现归档在gutenberg.org/etext/1
1971 扩张 网络联接23台主机(host)
1973 ARPAWOCKY Twas brillig(某种幻想中的动物), 和 协议(Protocols)间对话 / Did USER-SERVER in the wabe./ All mimsey was the FTP, / And the RJE outgrabe(按:这改编自卡罗尔的‘胡话派诗歌’)
1973 抵达欧洲 挪威通过美-挪网络Norsar接入Arpanet,来接收地震和核爆炸的信息。并从挪威连入伦敦大学(University College London)
Computers at two academic departments in California are linked by Arpanet, the predecessor of the internet
1971
@
Ray Tomlinson devises electronic mail for arpanet. He settles on @ to separate the name of the user from the name of their computer
1971
Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart begins a project to make copyright-free works electronically available. The first text is the US Declaration of Independence, now archived as gutenberg.org/etext/1
1971
Expansion
The network is now connecting 23 hosts
1973
ARPAWOCKY
Early network humour: Twas brillig, and the Protocols / Did USER-SERVER in the wabe./ All mimsey was the FTP, / And the RJE outgrabe
1973
To Europe
Norway is connected to Arpanet via Norsar, a US-Norwegian network to relay information on earthquakes and nuclear explosions. From Norway, a connection goes to University College London
1974
TCP/IP
Vint Cerf and others publish a proposal to link up Arpa-like networks. It has no central control and is built around a protocol (TCP/IP) for the exchange of data
1976
Royal email
Queen Elizabeth sends her first email on a visit to the MoD’s scientific research hub
1978
Spam
Gary Thuerk sends what is now considered thefirst unsolicited commercial email. Major Raymond Czahor of the US defence communications agency assures Arpanet users it will not happen again
1978
Bulletin boards
The first bulletin board is developed during a particularly bad blizzard in Chicago. Ward Christensen's creation allows computer users with a modem to talk to each other and exchange software and data
1982
:-)
Scott Fahlman proposes the use of after a joke, beating off rivals including %, * and {#} - said to be 'like two lips with teeth showing between them'
1983
Internet begins?
1 January is the cut-off point for computers to use Cerf's transmission control protocol (TCP). Cerf estimates this involved between 200-400 hosts
1984
Lots more connections
The number of hosts breaks 1,000, Japan establishes Junet, the UK begins Janet (the joint academic network) and the Soviet Union connects to Usenet.
1984
The Well
It calls itself 'the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born'. AGuardian profile of The Well's co-founder Stewart Brand said it was 'where most of the discoveries of cyberspace were first made'
1985
.com
The domain name that for many defines the web is created. The oldest .com registration still in existence belongs to Virginia-based Symbolics
1989
Start of the web
Tim Berners-Lee proposes to his bosses at Cern a document retrieval system to run on the internet. His mechanism will use hypertext to make a file in one location appear as if it is in a window on another
1990
Archie
Considered the first internet search engine, Archie is created by Canadian university student Alan Emtage. It allows users to match queries against file names (not the content of those files, that was still to come)
1990
Internet toaster
A toaster becomes the first remotely-operated machine connected to the internet. A single control - power on or power off - is used to control grilling. It still requires a human to insert the bread
1991
First web page published
The web goes public. Its first page explains it is a 'wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative'
1991
Webcam coffee
A coffee pot in a Cambridge University computer lab is the inspiration for the world's first webcam. It allows people in other parts of the building to avoid pointless trips when it is empty
1992
L0pht
The Boston-based hacker collective is founded
1994
Yahoo!
Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web is launched. In time it is renamed Yahoo!
1995
Amazon.com
The internet bookseller goes online. By the final quarter of 2001 it turns a profit - a little behind its plan for profitability within four to five years, but is still considered an exceptional dotcom performer
1996
Proto-Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford, begin work on BackRub, a search engine that ranks websites according to the number of links to them. It is incorporated as Google in 1998
1999
'Celestial jukebox'
Shaun Fanning's Napster application launches. It allows users share music files on each others' computers
1999
MI6 names leaked
The uncontrollable nature of the internet is brought to attention when the names of more than 100 MI6 agents are leaked to a US website. Despite being taken down, the names spread across other sites
2001
Wikipedia
It proclaims itself a collaborative encyclopedia. Eight years after launch it is now the most popular reference work online
2001
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
A project to harness the distributed processing power of the internet gathers enough volunteers within four weeks to surpass the most powerful supercomputer of its time
2004
The war on spam
Bill Gates tells the World Economic Forum at Davos that spam will be erradicated within two years. It isn't
2005
First spam conviction
Jeremy Jaynes sentenced to nine years in prison and his sister, Jessica DeGroot, fined $7,500
2006
Twitter
The 140 character service launches. Many who initially try it think it pointless. By 2009 it is credited with transmitting news of Iranian protests to the outside world
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