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U.S. military's funding of a research network dubbed Arpanet in 1969.
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Arpanet was for the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Back in 1969 when Arpanet was created, it connected five sites
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In 1983, the U.S. Defense Department spun-off MILNET*, which was the part of Arpanet that carried unclassified military communications.
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Arpanet was renamed the Internet in 1984, when it linked 1,000 hosts at university and corporate labs.
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In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as a method of publishing information in a hypertext format on the Internet.
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E-commerce burst on the scene in the mid-1990s, and it's been growing ever since - both in total sales and as a percentage of all retail sales.
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Internet usage has exploded since 1995, when researchers first started tracking this statistic. Although estimates vary from the Internet having 1 billion to 1.5 billion users
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In 1998, the U.S. Department of Commerce privatized domain name registrations and operations through the creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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Back in 2003, an estimated 15 billion spam messages were sent over the Internet daily. That means 45% of all e-mail messages were unsolicited pitches for things such as drugs and penny stocks.
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By 2012, more people will access the Internet via cell phones than PCs. Their favorite activities will be downloading music, videos and ringtones rather than searching the Web or sending e-mail.
