ARPANET By 21crawfordj 1965 Packet-switching technology is used by two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab to communicate with one another. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html 1968 Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) unveils the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. BBN wins ARPANET contract. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html 1969 Network Measurement Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html 1972 BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html 1973 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. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html 1982 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, emerge as the protocol for ARPANET. 1983 The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. 1991 CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public. 1998 The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet. 2004 Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser.