BRIEF INTERNET TIMELINE

ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

Jan 31, 1969

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems.

ELECTRONIC MAIL

Jan 31, 1972

Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address.

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL

Jan 31, 1973

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet. One of these protocols, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), allows users to log onto a remote computer, list the files on that computer, and download files from that computer.

QUEEN RECIEVES FIRST EMAIL

Jan 31, 1976

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.Queen Elizabeth sends her first email. She's the first state leader to do so.

INTERNET

Jan 31, 1982

The word 'internet' was created and used for the first time.

.com.au

Jan 31, 1985

Domain Name System is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.

INTERNET WORM

Jan 31, 1988

A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.

DIAL UP INTERNET

Jan 31, 1989

The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers.

LAUNCH OF WHITEHOUSE WEBSITE

Jan 31, 1994

The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.

NAVAGATION BROWSER

Jan 31, 1994

They introduce the Navigator browser.

NASA

Jul 8, 1997

On July 8, 1997, Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars.

GOOGLE

Jan 31, 1998

Google opens its first office, in California.

MYSPACE

Jan 31, 1999

MySpace.com is launched.

WIKIPEDIA

Jan 31, 2001

About 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent daily.Wikipedia is created.

INTERNET

Jan 31, 2002

As of January, 58.5% of the U.S. population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. Worldwide there are 544.2 million users

ONLINE MUSIC

Jan 31, 2003

It's estimated that Internet users illegally download about 2.6 billion music files each month.
Spam, unsolicited email, becomes a server-clogging menace. It accounts for about half of all emails. Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each.

FACEBOOK

Jan 31, 2004

facebokok.com is launched

YOUTUBE

Jan 31, 2005

YouTube.com is launched.

WEBSITES

Jan 31, 2006

There are more than 92 million websites online.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Jan 31, 2007

The online game, World of Warcraft, hits a milestone when it surpasses 9 million subscribers worldwide in July.