Timeline: History of internet

Dec 25, 1969

ARPA goes online connecting four universities for the first time

Period: Dec 25, 1969 to Nov 25, 2013

history of internet

Jan 1, 1972

Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist.

Jan 1, 1976

Leader's first sent email

Queen Elizabeth sends her first email. She's the first state leader to do so

Jan 1, 1982

Name "internet" is used for the first time

Jan 1, 1988

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

Jan 1, 1989

www.

Tim Berners-Lee develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks (specially programmed words, phrases, buttons, or graphics).

Jan 1, 1994

www.whitehouse.gov

The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary.

Jan 1, 1995

Java

Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java.

Jan 1, 1996

Internet2

Internet2 Project was originally established by 34 university researchers

Jan 1, 1997

Internet traffic record broken

Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day.

Jan 1, 1998

Google

Google opens its first office in California.

Jan 1, 1999

Napster

College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet.

Feb 1, 2001

Napster's fall

Napster is dealt a potentially fatal blow when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rules that the company is violating copyright laws and orders it to stop distributing copyrighted music. The file-swapping company says it is developing a subscription-based service.

Jan 1, 2003

Apple itunes

Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each.

Jan 1, 2005

Youtube

YouTube.com is launched.

Jan 1, 2008

Microsoft

software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
Microsoft to give competitors information necessary to operate with Windows. Since 2004, Microsoft has been fined a total of $2.5 billion by the Commission for not adhering to their ruling.

Nov 25, 2013