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During the Cold War, on October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union quietly launched its first spacecraft satellite called Sputnik into orbit. This launch challenged the United States Department of Defense to put a high priority on research and projects in science and technology and created an agency called ARPA
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ARPA-funded computer network that becomes a reality in 1969. Over the following years, the ARPANET grows.
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Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.
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University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. The first message is "LO," which was an attempt by student Charles Kline to "LOGIN" to the SRI computer from the university.
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BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email
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The term Internet is born.
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The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.
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Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email
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The modern emoticon was born.
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Symbolics.com, the website for Symbolics Computer Corp. in Massachusetts, becomes the first registered domain.
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The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 20,000
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One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988
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When Apple pulled out of the AppleLink program in 1989, the project was renamed and America Online was born
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the first commercial dial-up Internet provider
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It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.
