history of the internet By lilbezza Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik was launched Jan 1, 1968 development of distributed network and packet switching Jan 1, 1969 first two nodes connect - UCLA and Stanford Jan 1, 1972 Ray Tomlison invents email ant the @ symbol is adopted Jan 1, 1978 Bulletin board system (BBS) invented Jan 1, 1979 BBS was resealed to the public Jan 1, 1982 TCP/IP established Nov 24, 1984 Numeric address replaced with human-friendly domain names (DNS) Jan 1, 1990 WorldWideWeb browser ( later named Nexus) written by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN Jan 1, 1993 Mosaic-GUI browser. Developers go on to create Netscape Navigator and Microsoft buy the Mosaic Licence Jan 1, 1995 Internet Explorer 1 - based on Mosaic
