History of the Internet By facebooker_100002519276137 Jan 1, 1969 ARPANET Period: Jan 1, 1972 to Jan 1, 1973 Advances in ARPANET email started and the term 'internet' starts being used Jan 1, 1976 Advance in email Email more popular, also, at this point UNIX is the most popular OS Jan 1, 1991 "www." Jan 1, 1992 Internet begins registration for .com, .net, .org, .edu, and .gov Jan 1, 1993 MOSAIC Jan 1, 1995 HTML 2.0 Jan 1, 1998 Google Jan 1, 1999 Napster Jan 1, 2001 Napster Dies Jan 1, 2008 Chrome Jan 1, 2012 SOPA Bill not passed