The history of the development of the Internet and e-mail

The history of the Internet begins with the end of the fifties, when the second generation of computers was already in operation in the world. The external international relations of the leading world powers of the USSR and the US pushed for new research, necessary to protect and transmit information in a reliable way.

The US Department of Defense was the initiator of the first development of computer networks, from which the history of Internet development began. Scientists from four famous universities of America took an active part in them. Their computers connected in 1969 ARPANET - the first computer network.

ARPANET was quickly used not only by the military, but also by specialists from various fields of science. The first server appeared in the University of California (Los Angeles), the computer had a memory capacity of 24 KB. The first communication session took place in October 1969 with the Research Institute in Stanford, which was conducted by Charlie Kline and Bill Duvall.

In 1971, it became possible to send e-mail, as a special program was developed. In the future, the history of e-mail development was pushed by the desire of users to expand the horizons of communication.

A year later ARPANET became international, connecting through the telephone cable to Great Britain and Norway. In the seventies the first computer network was used mainly for sending mail.

In 1983, ARPANET was entrenched in the term Internet, and next year a domain name system appeared.

The history of the Internet continued to create other networks, which are built on data transfer protocols. A special role was played in this process by John Postel, who developed and standardized several network protocols: IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, Telnet, FTP, DNS.

In 1984, an inter-university network NSFNet appeared, including other small networks, to which about ten thousand computers were connected during the year.

1988 was the year of the development of a chat, a protocol that allowed real-time communication.

In the late eighties the history of the development of the Internet again acquired new names. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist who developed the HTTP protocol, the HTML language, URI identifiers, proposed in 1989 the concept of the World Wide Web (WWW).

In 1990, the first computer network left the Internet arena, and the World Wide Web by 1995 became the main provider of information on the Internet.

Now the world is not conceivable without the Internet. Finding useful information, shopping, business, entertainment - it is difficult to list all the possibilities of a global network.

The history of creating e-mail is no less interesting than the history of the development of the Internet. Back in 1965, Tom Van Vleck and Noel Morris developed the first MAIL program. In the future, other scientists have made efforts to create a modern look and functionality of e-mail:

- Ray Tomlinson - special mail progammamy and the introduction of the @ symbol, which linked the username and the domain name in the address bar.

- Larry Roberts is a program for creating and sorting lists of letters.
- Steve Walker - the first mailing list

- John Vittal is a mail program that provides the ability to compose a response to a received message, send letters and sort correspondence.

A significant event was in 1976, when the English Queen Elizabeth II for the first time took advantage of e-mail capabilities.

For three decades, e-mail has gained immense popularity. Today, it takes a leading position in relation to other ways of transmitting information on the Internet. The software allows you to connect to any point of the world from any computer, send not only a text message, but also other types of files. E-mail came to such concepts as "emoticons", "spam" and "viruses".