History of the Internet

  • First link on ARPANET

    First link on ARPANET
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute at 10:30pm
  • First Email Programs Made.

    First Email Programs Made.
    First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
  • Founding of Apple Computers

    Founding of Apple Computers
    Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.
  • ARPANET switches to TCP/IP

    It is commonly known as TCP/IP from its most important protocols
  • First Web Post

    First Web Post
    Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.
  • Netscape creates secure shopping

    Netscape creates secure shopping
    Netscape 1.0 is introduced in late 1994 SSL encryption that made transactions secure.
  • First Big Social Network

    First Big Social Network
    The first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists.