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INTERNET TIMELINE
1979
News groups born
1983
Domain Name System (DNS) designed. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, .int created.
Domain Name System (DNS): Translates Domain names into IP addresses The internet
is really based on IP addresses. Ex. www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4
This was created because names are easier to remember than a long string of numbers.
1984 William Gibson writes "Neuromancer" and coins the term "cyberspace",
a metaphor for the non-physical terrain created by computer systems.
1985 Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain name.
1987
10,000 hosts on the Internet
1989
100,000 hosts on the Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee invents HTTP (Hyper-Text-Transfer-Protocol), just a collection
of linked pages. It allows you to jump from one web page to another by pointing
and clicking.