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Lawrence Roberts of MIT connects a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines.
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Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.
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Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.
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Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.
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ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.
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The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 20,000. Cisco ships its first router.
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Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The company was later incorporated in March 1995.
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The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.
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The dot-com bubble bursts. Web sites such as Yahoo! and eBay are hit by a large-scale denial of service attack, highlighting the vulnerability of the Internet. AOL merges with Time Warner
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Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser.
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Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults report that they bank online, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
