History of the Internet By Abdullahi Oct 29, 1969 The first Arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) The Arpanet was the first packet-switched network and also it was used to share workload between a network of scientific computers. Mar 5, 1970 Newsgroups and bulletin boards Jan 1, 1971 Email Apr 30, 1978 International packet switched service Jun 4, 1983 TCP/IP protocol, National Science Foundation (NSF) Feb 9, 1984 Domain name addressing system May 17, 1987 10,000 Hosts Jul 16, 1990 First commercial dialup Sep 7, 1990 Search engines Aug 6, 1991 World Wide Web, CERN Feb 3, 1993 First widely used browser (Mosaic) Feb 3, 1996 Word ‘Internet’ in daily use Feb 3, 1997 10 million users May 10, 2000 Dotcom bubble burst Jan 1, 2012 WIki's Feb 2, 2012 Blogs Mar 3, 2012 Social networking Apr 4, 2012 Online gaming May 5, 2012 interaction between other people
