History of The Internet By nataleewalker Jan 1, 1969 ARPANET Jan 1, 1973 ARPANET goes international Jan 1, 1989 World Wide Web Invented Jan 1, 1994 Yahoo! receives 100,000 visitors Jan 1, 1995 Amazon & Ebay Invented Jul 12, 1996 Internet Explorer & Windows Jan 1, 1998 Google Invented Jan 1, 2001 AOL & Time Warner merge Jan 1, 2003 Nearly Half the Homes have Internet Jan 1, 2004 Facebook Launches Jan 1, 2006 Twitter Created Feb 1, 2010 Facebook Reaches 400 Million Users That's larger than the population of the US and UK combined.