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DARPA created
Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) created -
ARPANET first established
ARPANET was originally established in 1966. -
First ARPANET Link Created
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) created the world's first packet switched network. -
Email was first used
In 1971, an email message was first sent from one PC to another. It was also the first time that the "@" sign was used in a message, to seperate the users name and the users machine in the message. -
Telenet first established
Telenet, the world's first publically-accessible packet switching network was created. It was only available in a handful of U.S. cities. -
TCP/IP first developed
The Internet Protocol suite (TCP/IP) was first created -
IPSS Created
The International Packet Switched Service (IPSS) was created. This first allowed international network communication originally between multiple different networks within the UK, the U.S. and other countries -
TCP/IP adopted by U.S. Military
The U.S. Department of Defence declared TCP/IP as the standard for all military computing. -
ARPANET migrates to TCP/IP
The ARPANET completes its migration to TCP/IP from NCP. -
DNS Invented
The Domain Name System (DNS) was invented. Prior to this, people had to manually map addresses to systems using the HOSTS.TXT file, but DNS allowed these addresses to be stored on seperate servers (DNS Servers) and recalled as and when it was necessary. -
10,000 Hosts
The Internet first reached 10,000 hosts in 1987 -
First Web Server Created
Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web server in 1990, as well as the first web browser. This became the basis for what is now known as the World Wide Web; pages created in HyperText and hosted over the Internet. -
Mosaic 1.0 Released
Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, was first created in 1993. -
Yahoo! Created
Yahoo!, one of the world's most popular search engines, was first created in 1994. -
Netscape Communications founded
Netscape, the company famous for producing the web browser "Netscape Navigator", was founded. -
Internet Explorer first released
The web browser "Internet Explorer" was first released in 1995, originallyas part of Plus! for Windows 95 (a paid-for suite of software). This was important as it was the first release of what is currently the world's most popular web browser. It was made freely available to Microsoft's other operating systems later in the year. -
Google first created
Google, currently the world's most popular search engine, was created in 1996. -
Mozilla Application Suite first launched
The Mozilla Application Suite, generally known as "Mozilla", was released (originally as a code base release of Netscape Communicator). This later went on to become the basis for Firefox (one of the most popular web browsers), as well as Thunderbird (a popular email client). -
Wikipedia Launched
Wikipedia, the famous user-editable online encyclopedia, was first released. Originally released just to complement Nupedia (a similar online encyclopedia editable only by experts), it went on to become the largest collection of works on the Internet. -
Thefacebook Launched
"Thefacebook", the predecessor to Facebook, was first launched. Originally it was only open to students at Harvard college, it later opened up to many other academic institutions in the U.S. as well as internationally. -
The first YouTube video was uploaded
The very first YouTube video, called "Me at the zoo", was uploaded. -
Facebook made public for the first time
Facebook opens up its registration process, allowing anyone age 13 and up to open a Facebook account. Previously, people had to be a student at specific academic institutions and after opening up went on to become the most popular social networking site on the Internet by a long margin, as well as the second most popular site at the time of writing (after Google)