History of the Internet

Came across a cool map showing the history of the Internet.



This site shows each image with a brief description.

The history of the global Internet stretches back several decades starting with the pioneering work of researchers and engineers in the 1960s who invented packet networking.

They discovered how to send messages between different computers on a network by dividing the message into small packets of digital data which could be transmitted across the network via separate switching computers or routers and then reassembled by the receiving computer. This technique was designed to reduce the risk of a failed communication.

By the 1980s, there were a number of different large scale packet networks in operation. Particularly notable were ARPANET, USENET, uucp, and BITNET.