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USSR launches the first satellite
Sputnik is launched and the United States Department of defense creates the Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA developed new technology for the military. -
Work outlines multimedia paradigms to be integrated into the internet.
The paper, A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect is published by George Engelbart. -
Rand Corporation proposes a new information network
New information network so that the U,S could successfully communicate after a nuclear war. -
First host-host advanced research projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
First operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global internet. -
ARPANET begins to use email
ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email -
The term "internet" beings to be used
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First commercial email software
Comet is the first commercial email software -
SRI scientists demonstrate that a TCP (transmission control protocol) will successfully support seamless end to end transmission over mobile radio.
Near Menlo Park, California SRI scientists demonstrate that a TCP (transmission control protocol) will successfully support seamless end to end transmission over mobile radio. -
Information Highway
Al Gore coins the term for the Internet “The Information Superhighway.” -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee coins the name "World Wide Web." -
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC)
SLAC becomes the first web server on the internet -
Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov.
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The internet goes big
The internet takes off as part of the worlds fastest growing growing information network -
Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.
Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more. -
Independant programming software, JAVA is invented
The independent programming language, JAVA, is created by Jim Gosling at Sun Microsystems. -
domain registrants boom
In 1997, there are 1 million domain registrants on the Internet. -
Weblog is coined
The term "weblog" is coined, and later shortened to "blog" -
Lucent Technology develops the first telephony system.
Lucent Technology (a spin-off of AT&T) develops the first telephony system. The telephony system allows users to make phone calls over the Internet. Ironically, this led to the eventual demise of the AT&T phone network. -
3 million domain registrants on the Internet.
There are now 3 million domain registrants on the Internet. The number of Web pages on the Internet is 300 million and growing by over 1.5 million per day. -
Google is invented.
Google is invented in Menlo Park, California. -
Internet celebrates its 30th birthday
In 1999, the internet has been around for 30 years! -
The internet economy
The Internet economy is responsible for over 2.3 million jobs and over $507 billion in revenue. -
There are approximately 100 million computers connected online.
A lot of people are using the internet now, and going out to buy computers of their own. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is launched. -
Internet World Stats counted over 544 million users on the Internet.
A lot of people are using the internet for many different reasons! People love that they can do pretty much everything on their computer now. -
Facebook
Facebook is formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Youtube launches
Youtube is launched and people begin to stream videos online and publish their own much easier than they used to. -
Twitter is founded
Twitter is founded in San Francisco, California. -
Internet World Stats counts over 1.6 billion web surfers worldwide
Internet World Stats counts over 1.6 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2009. -
Happy 40th birthday, internet!
The internet celebrates its 40th birthday! -
Facebook and Twitter make it big
Twitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East revolts. -
There are over 5 million domain names registered on the Internet.
People are starting to make their own domain names, which brings the number of domain names up to 5 million! -
Internet freedom is on the line
Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/Protect IP Act (PIPA) and to maintain Internet freedom.
