Count Internet 20 Milestones

In the global Internet today, people will not rely on traditional PCs to sit at home broadband Internet access, on the one hand, mobile terminal equipment Bad street, public WiFi is also speeding up the improvement. On the other hand, people connect to the Internet no longer monotonous, can do more and more. However, it may be hard to imagine what the original form is behind the internet today. In the 90 's, did you know about the Internet? Do you have broadband in your home or your neighborhood?

Mature things will go through a perfect process, recall words, there are 20 relatively important events worth recalling, although concentrated in 1994/95/96 those years, but from the beginning, we will go back to the last century 70 's ...

1978: The world's first online game online

Richard Bartle, a professor at the University of Essex, Richard Bater, and student Roy Doubo Shaw (Roy Trubshaw) in August 1978 wrote the first text-based computer game mud (Multi-User dungeon, many people underground city, After the development of multi-user network games, commonly known as mud games, its most notable feature is to allow hundreds of of people at the same time online. Jessica Mulligan, a senior computer game consultant and computer game historian Jessica Murigan, said, "There have been too many games, but those games only allowed a few people to be online at the same time, and Mud was the first game to really allow hundreds of people to participate in the same space." ”

Mud is the most appropriate web game originator, Mulligan said, and all multiplayer online games are actually based on mud prototypes. Now, if you want, you can still find the early mud game, but you may not believe it will be an online game.

The world's first online game "mud" mud

1985: The world's first website domain name online

In the early days, no company in the world had its own homepage. Until March 15, 1985, the world's first Web site domain name symbolics.com was registered, when even a lot of people do not know exactly what the goods should be opened. It is understood that symbolics.com is now owned by Missouri State, a domain name investor in the United States, which was purchased from Symbolics in September 2009. In addition, it is difficult to imagine that the world's first 100 domain names from the application to complete the registration, with a full 32 months.

Data show that as of 2011, the number of registered. com domain names exceeded 94 million, while the number of. NET,. org,. infor,. Biz and. US amounted to 12.97 million.

Global first website domain name symbolics.com

1994: The world's first online advertising online

Data, October 25, 1994, published in the United States Wired Network magazine At&t banner ads, become the world's first in the real sense of online advertising. However, many experts believe that the first successful use of the Internet advertising should be published in the same month, the "hotline" site ads (hotwired.com).

No matter who, from then on, the network advertisement order more and more, the kind also more and more rich, opened the marketing new road. At the same time, newspapers, radio, television and other media to detect a very large sense of crisis, in order to save themselves, many old media have to join the network.

The world's first online advertising

1994:wifi appears

Complicated wiring do not know how many ISPs and users dizzy brain swelling. 1994, Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University) announced the successful erection of the world's first wireless network. As you may know, in 1999, the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the IEEE, issued its first officially defined 802.11 standard.

The advent of wireless networks, at the time, might not have been particularly significant, even with the questioning of peers. Today, however, WiFi is definitely a landmark step in modern-day view.

1994, the world's first wireless network set up successfully

1994: E-commerce appears

A year before Amazon opened, a company named Netmarket was set up in Nashua, New Hampshire, and, on August 11, 1994, successfully completed the world's first online deal, selling the world's first online product (a sting album), Combined with a total of 12.48 dollars in freight, buyers from Philadelphia, it is difficult to imagine the transaction process was applied to encryption technology.

Now, you Taobao, Jingdong and other e-commerce sites, you can find the vast majority of the goods you need, a few dollars, large and small, a myriad of countless, and, increasingly perfect security management mechanism and logistics distribution system, so that online shopping more security worry.

The world's first E-commerce website Netmarket

1995: ebay Online

Although E-commerce appears, but you will find that the sales model at that time by the relationship between new products, only B to C, producers and consumers exist independently. Until September 1995, when the ebay.com was officially online, the auction changed the rules and made the industry more interesting. September 3, 1995, ebay reached the world's first online auction transaction.

Now look at online shopping, we are most commonly used to "shoot things", "clap" rather than buy. A lot of e-commerce sites, second-hand trading sites a lot of, want to buy what want to sell what hit a few keyboard things.

ebay Vintage Version

1995: Amazon Online

If Netmarket play only pediatrics, God horse sold Amazon.com is really the originator of E-commerce. Amazon sold its first book in July 1995, the name of which has gone down in history. "Liquidity ideas and creative analogies: The computer model of the basic mechanism of thinking" (Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies:computer Models of the Fu Ndamental mechanisms of thought), and this is just the beginning.

Amazon sells products from small books, DVD-Audio and video-vacuum cleaners to household appliances that seem to be quite rich at the time. In addition, concise and informative pages, perfect customer service, low product prices, including the provision of free distribution services, are the key to the success of Amazon, but also become a valuable experience in future e-commerce sites.

Amazon Retro version

1995: Online video appears

The world's first online streaming video is not from Netflix. As early as 1995, Progressive NX released an online streaming video of a live baseball game between the Seattle Mariners (Seattle Mariners) and the New York Yankees (NY Yankees). And progressive NX is the later famous RealNetworks. It can be said that RealNetworks's initial exploration has cleared the way for today's incredible streaming media applications.

Of course, the company that helps streaming video truly online is Netflix. Founded in April 14, 1998, relying on DVD mailing services to become rich, in early 2007 began to launch online streaming media video business. In the January 2008, Netflix streaming media Video service has been expanded to the television area.

Online video, how the Internet can be less dynamic image

1996: Monthly Internet service appears

We have to return to the special day of October 29, 1996. At the time, AOL was one of the largest Internet service providers in the United States, announcing plans to lower the cost of Internet access and to launch an unlimited 19.95 dollar monthly Internet service. Previously, dial-up Internet 20 hours to spend 19.95 U.S. dollars, every hour more than 2.95 dollars, is called luxury services, not the average family can afford to, until the advent of the monthly network.

1996, AOL launched the world's first monthly dial-up Internet service

1996: Broadband Presence

Speaking of the Internet, many people will not forget the 1994: At that time people sat in front of the computer, patiently dial the number, because there is no other way. It was not until 1996 that the first high-speed broadband service in North America was officially popularized in 1999, greatly boosting the use of home broadband. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. National Communications and Information Administration report, 2001, the United States home broadband installation rate of 9%, to 2009, increased to 64%, expanded 7 times times.

The same year, the world's first home broadband in the United States

1996: Google's rise

Yes, at last Google time. Sergey (Sergey Brin) met Larry Page in 1995. They invented a simple search engine called "Backrub" in 1996. BackRub was renamed Google in 1997. September 8, 1998, Google Company was founded. Until now, Google is still the world's largest and most frequently used search engine, with hundreds of millions of of users worldwide searching every day in various languages.

Google Retro version

1996: BBS prototype Craigslist appeared

Here will be built in March 1995, Craigslist website called the embryonic form of BBS, is a small set of personal opinions. Maybe you're unfamiliar with Craigslist. Craigslist was founded as a private online bulletin board in San Francisco, largely from founder Clegg Newmark (Craignewmark), but only a year after that, more and more people were sharing and using Craigslist in 1996, and the site was growing. September 11, 1997, craigslist.org official online form of the website.

Why does Craigslist mean a lot to the internet? because Craigslist is a free platform, in such a high-profile place to publish job search, sell cars, rent a house, goods, etc. information or free, you will find that this form is actually very much like the current BBS. Information shows that by 2011, Craigslist classified advertising services have covered more than 695 cities in more than 50 countries, in the United States alone, its monthly visits of more than 20 billion.

Can be seen as the prototype of the BBS Craigslist (the founder of the right)

1996: The prototype of the ebook appeared

In the late 90, products from all walks of life rushed into the internet market, and in that everyone read the newspaper era, online books appear more and more become the hottest topic of discussion. July 1996, O ' Reilly & Associates Publishing House, "MH & Xmh:email for Users & Programmers", produced by Jerry Peek in 1991 Become the world's first book published to the internet. This form makes it easy for readers to find the books they want, and to store and carry them, which is also the prototype of modern E-books.

The world's first "ebook"

1997: Blog appears

The Word blog (Weblog) first appeared in December 1997, after a long time, the word we simply remove it became the current blogger (blog). But in 2004, The New York Times also reported that Justin Hall might be "the father of personal blogs", as it was said that Hall had started writing "blogs" on January 23, 1994.

Although all support interaction and feedback, but the form of blog is different from BBS. Blogs can exist independently, people can only think of it as a diary on the Web, just like the first call it "blog", but obviously rely on the interactive survival of the BBS is not. In addition, BBS needs management, plate fixed, the user does not have permission to change, and the blog is relatively free.

Blog, the memory of the student era

2003: itunes appears

April 28, 2003, Apple's itunes debut, to provide consumers with a new, portable, easy to use, classification and cheap online music solutions. You were using an Apple device in 03? It was obvious that itunes did not change the world as the official claim, at least in the 2003 China.

What really drives the music industry forward, however, is the sales model of the itunes online store. Music enthusiasts used to buy music by buying vinyl records, cassettes, tapes, and online music stores that changed the tradition, and digital audio has arrived. You will also find that the market relationship between singers, record companies and consumers has also been redistributed.

itunes Retro version

2003: Skype appeared

The initial rise of internet chatting dates back to the late 70, when the main stream was the BBS and multiplayer online chat system (Internet Relay Chat). By 1980, CompuServe CB Simulator became the world's first real-time online chat program. Then AOL in 1996 launched the chat program, is considered to be the popularity of online chat signs. It was not until 2003 that Skype first came to us, a tool that integrates instant messaging, video, and IP telephony services, bringing revolutionary changes to online chats.

Skype Retro version

2004: Facebook appears

In a dormitory in Harvard University in 2004, CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) was with three other co-founder Dustin Moscow-Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Houss (Chris Hughes), De Huado Savillin ( Eduardo Saverin) together, launched Facebook.

Facebook is also a harbinger of a "social networking" war, but it turns out that everyone is discerning, and that the horse BBS, blogs, Facebook and Twitter, Weibo, and all of them are social.

Facebook Retro Version

2005: YouTube appears

The difference between online video and online video sharing sites is that the latter has a "share" word (eh?), although YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, but it was not until 8:27 April 23, 2005 that the first video, "I'm at the Zoo", was 19 seconds long. Today, YouTube has become the world's largest online video-sharing site, with a wide influence, covering 25 countries and 43 languages.

YouTube Retro version

2006: Twitter appears

March 21, 2006, the world's first tweet sent out, the content is "just set my Twitter." "From Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), Twitter chairman and co-founder. What Weibo is, no one knows at the time.

Twitter Retro version

2009: Weibo came

Microblogging, micro-blogging (microblog), modern people in the end is lazy or become smart? Chinese version of Twitter?