History of the Internet By russel123 Oct 29, 1969 Internet was born UCLA and Stanford connected their computers computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time. In effect, they were the first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. Nov 16, 1969 Unix was created and influenced the Linux Linux is an OS that is used today in most web servers Nov 15, 1971 Email was created May 30, 1973 eBooks hit the market Mar 30, 1978 SAPM! was created for the first time Nov 15, 1982 The first emotion was created by a 17 year old :-) Oct 2, 1991 World Wide Web was created and the first page was made Apr 16, 1993 First Graphical web site was made Apr 18, 1994 Netscape Navigator the first web browser was created Dec 10, 1995 Java Script was made to solve peoples problems with not being able to see the web sites Nov 15, 1996 The first E-mail provider hotmail was made: NOTE e-mial was still avaible but it was in the form of chat rooms Jan 1, 1998 Google was the first searching divice that was attached to the web browser Nov 15, 2001 Wikipedia was launched in giving the people the freedom to get info on a project Aug 31, 2003 Myspace become most popular social network Sep 18, 2004 Facebook launches Jul 19, 2005 Youtube becomes and instant hit when it comes in 2005 Jun 7, 2007 iPhone becomes the first moble phone to have mobil broad band Sep 2, 2011 The US restricts the grip it hasd over the internet