Internet Timeline

After reading through Hobbes’ Internet Timeline, find 5 milestones most relevant to the World Wide Web, screen design, and multimedia design issues – along with the time they happened. List your findings on your WebCT account.


1)1979
On April 12, Kevin MacKenzie emails the MsgGroup a suggestion of adding some emotion back into the dry text medium of email, such as -) for indicating a sentence was tongue-in-cheek. Though flamed by many at the time, emoticons became widely used after Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS on 19 September 1982


2)1991
World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (:pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch.


3)1992

First MBONE audio multicast (March) and video multicast (November)


4)1992

Veronica, a gopherspace search tool, is released by Univ of Nevada

5)1993
Mosaic takes the Internet by storm (22 Apr); WWW proliferates at a 341,634% annual growth rate of service traffic. Gopher's growth is 997%.