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America's bomb-proof communications network
The first node is connected to the internet's military ancestor, ARPANET. With no HQ and the abiliity to bounce messages between surviving nodes until they reach their destination/ ARPANET was intended to be America's bomb-proof communication network at the height of the cold war. -
Bolt Beranek and Newman computer engineer Ray Tomlinson invents Email
Bolt Beranek and Newman computer engineer ray tomlinson invents email by adapting an internal messaging program and extending it to use the ARPANET to send messages between sites. Within a year' three quarters of ARPANET traffic is email. -
university college of london is one of the first international connections to ARPANET
Univesity college of london is one of the first international connections to ARPANET. -
Scott Fahlman kick-starts smiley-culture
Scott Fahlman kick-starts smiley-culture by suggesting using the :-) and :-( smileys to convey emotions in emails. His message has been preserved at http://research.microsoft.com/-mbj/smiley/smiley.html. -
Internet newsgroups are born
Rick Adams at the center for seismic studies releases software enabling news tranmission, posting and reading using internet-standard TCP/IP connections. His softmore builds on work begun in 1979 at Duke University to exchange information between unix machines. -
The first internet worm
The first internet worm is unleashedby Robert Morris. It infects about 6000 computers. Although it cuases no physical damage, it clogs up the internet and loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in computer. -
SuperCompter Applications in the US launches web-browser Mosaic
Marc Andreesen of the National Center for SuperComputer Applications in the US launches wed-browser mosaic. It introduces propietry HTML tags and more sophisticated image capabilities. The browser is a massive success and businesses start to notice the web's potential. Andreesen goes on to develop the Netscape web browser. -
Jerry and David's guide to Yahoo
Jerry and David's guide to world wide web is renamed Yahoo! and recieves 100,000 visitors. in 1995, it begins displaying adverts. -
Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab launches search engine
Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab launches search engine Alta Vista, which it claims can store and index the HTML from every internet page. It also introduces the first multilingual search. -
The big internet war
The browser wars begin. Microsoft sees the internet as a threat and integrates Internet Explorer with Windows. Netscape and Microsoft go head-to-head, intensively developing and releasing upgrades to their browsers. -
Google arrives
Google arrives. It pioneers a ranking system that uses links to assess a website's popularity. Google's simple design is soothing while existing search engines cram their pages with animated adverts. -
The Internet continues to experience staggering growth
The Internet continues to experience staggering growth. More people use the Internet to get connected to others, find information, conduct business, and share information than ever before in history. -
spams and pop-up ads
After 43.2 million spams, and over 2.3 billion pop-up ads worldwide, someone buys an X-10 mini cam. -
music download stores
As broadband becomes more popular, media companies start selling music and video online. Napster relaunches as a paid music download store. It's up against itunes, Apple's download store for it's trendy ipod portable music players. -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook at Harvard university. Within three years, the social networking site has 30 million members. By 2009, Facebook boasts of over 200 million active users. -
Twitter is created
Twitter is created. In shark contrast to the proliferation of lengthy blog posts online, Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters. -
Google's Tenth birthday
The company that began with a search engine now also dominates online advertising and has a leading presence in online mapping, webmail and online document collaboration. Google's search engine indexes 1 trillion unique URLs and there are several billion new webpages published every day. Google encroaches on Microsoft's territory with the launch of the Google Chrome browser. -
400 million active members in Facebook
In February, Facebook announces it has 400 million active members. That's larger than the population of the US and UK combined.
