Together Networks history

In 1974 it announces Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a set of protocols designed for less centralized networks.

Shoch took the term "worm" from the 1976 book The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner, in which an omnipotent "tapeworm" program runs loose through a network of computers.

Clicking on hyperlinks is what lets us “surf” the Web instead of plodding through it. It got so obscure that the main father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, may have unknowingly re-invented it in 1980.

Usenet is the first; though mostly for geeks its discussion groups are quite popular and it gets ported to run over the Internet by 1986.

At the instigation of computer pioneers, Senator Al Gore begins working in 1987 on what will become his High Performance Computing and Communication Act.

At the world’s biggest physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland, English programmer and physicist Tim Berners-Lee submits two proposals for what will become the Web, starting in March of 1989.

By 1992 the Internet will have emerged as the new global standard, linking a million computers.

In 1994, Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) founds the CommerceNet consortium to encourage Web commerce, and demonstrates secure credit-card transactions that same year.

But by 1995 the Web is growing quickly, and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates decides it is better to fight within the Web than to fight the Web itself.

Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo creates the i-mode networking standard for mobile data in 1999.

In 2004, Google is the first major Web company to float a publicly traded stock since the go-go days of the dot-com boom.