

Today's Internet browsers we use today (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.), got their inspiration from the Mosaic browser. A big competitor to Mosaic was Netscape, which was released a year later. Mosaic is the first widely-used graphical World Wide Web browser, released on Apby the NCSA with the help of Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. Tim Berners-Lee introduces The Internet had hundreds of people who helped develop the standards and technologies used today, but without the WWW, the Internet would not be as popular today. The first website,, is developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and published online on August 6, 1991. In 1990, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, which made a huge contribution to how we navigate and view the Internet today. The World was the first ISP to be used on what we now consider to be the Internet. The first commercial ISP (Internet service provider) in the US, known as "The World," is introduced in 1989. The first Internet domain name,, is registered on Maby Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS in 1984, that also introduces the domain name system. Today, TCP/IP is still the primary protocol used on the Internet. The creation of TCP/IP help create UDP and is later standardized into ARPANET on January 1, 1983. In 1978, TCP splits into TCP/IP, driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. The modem and their subsequent modems become a popular choice for home users to connect to the Internet and get online. The modem is introducedĭennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington released the 80-103A modem in 1977. Ethernet is conceivedīob Metcalfe develops the idea of Ethernet in 1973. First commercial networkĪ commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet, is introduced in 1974 and considered to be the first ISP (Internet service provider). Most people consider these two people the inventors of the Internet. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in RFC 675, published in December 1974. It's the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.

Ray Tomlinson sends the first network e-mail in 1971. Shortly after the crash, the issue was resolved, and he was able to log into the computer. However, the message was unable to be completed because the SRI system crashed. Kline to log into the SRI computer from UCLA. The first message to be distributed was LO, an attempt at LOGIN, by Charley S. The connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered the first Internet backbone. On Friday, October 29, 1969, at 10:30 p.m., the first Internet message was sent from the computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA, to a computer at SRI. The picture is Leonard Kleinrock next to the IMP. On September 2, 1969, the first data moves from the UCLA host to the switch. On August 29, 1969, the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called "IMP" (Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. The UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) put out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.) was later awarded the contract to design and build the IMP subnetwork. In December 1968, Elmer Shapiro with SRI released a report "A Study of Computer Network Design Parameters." Based on this and earlier work by Paul Baran, Thomas Marill and others, Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler created the IMP (Interface Message Processor) specifications. In the meeting, the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate. Other attendees included Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. In the summer of 1968, the NWG (Network Working Group) held its first meeting, chaired by Elmer Shapiro, at the SRI (Stanford Research Institute). The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960s in California in the United States. Also, with ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network that later became ARPANET. Licklider became the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961. Below is a listing of different people who have helped contribute to and develop the Internet. A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today.
