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J.C.R. Licklider worked on developing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. It was desinged for education and research
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The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US
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Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, computer scientist. He then used the @ sign to distinguish between the sender's name and the network name
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and later gets more technologically advanced.
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Spam brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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The word "Internet" is used for the first time
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Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers
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The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before.
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The Mosaic is developed by Marc Andreeson at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
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Yahoo was lauched for the first time
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Hotmail was created in 1995, but officially launched in 1996
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Google opens its first office in California
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Google was lauched
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MySpace.com is launched
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Wikipedia was launched
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Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each.
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Facebook was created in 2004 by co founder, Mark Zuckerburg
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Youtube is lauched
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There are over 92 million websites online
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Twitter was offically laumched
