History of the Internet

By fluffyt.bread

  • Soviet Sputnik Launch, prompting the US to form ARPA.

  • ARPA creates ARPANET

  • First Email Program is created

  • ARPANET links computers at more then 200 sites

  • DOD builds Defense Data Network based on ARPANET.

  • ARPA splits into ARPANET and Milnet. Internet is in place

  • ARPANET ceases to exist

  • World Wide Web (WWW) is launched

  • Internet links more than 17k networks in 33 countries

  • Internet has more than 3 million users

  • 102 million people use the Internet worldwide

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