History of the Internet

The Idea

Aug 1, 1962

J. C. R. Licklider at MIT discusses his idea of globally interconnected computers which people could easily access data and programs from any site. http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/index.html

ARPANET Created

Apr 7, 1969

First design is produced by Steve Crocker. He requests comments for his work to know what to improve on. http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/index.html

ARPANET Launched

Dec 1, 1969

ARPANET is live, and used for education, government, and research. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Email

Jan 1, 1972

Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson. He uses the '@' sign to distinguish between the sender's anme and the network name. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

TCP/IP

Jan 1, 1973

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol designed and is used to communicate between computers over the Internet. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

DNS

Jan 1, 1984

Domain System Name created, and applies network addresses with the exensions like: .com, .ca, .org. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Internet Worm

Jan 1, 1988

A virus known as the Internet Worm shut down 10% of the Internet temporarily. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Mosaic

Jan 1, 1993

Marc Anderson, a developer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), develops a system known as Mosaic. It is used to navigate around the World Wide Web. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Java

Jan 1, 1995

Sun Micrsosystems comes out with the Internet programming language known as Java, http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

45 Million Users

Jan 1, 1996

About 45 million people are using the Internet. Roughly 30 million in North America, 9 million in Europe,and 6 million in Asia. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

NASA Breaks Records

Jul 8, 1997

Internet traffic records are broken when NASA broadacats its images from Mars. It brings in 46 million website views. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Google

Jan 1, 1998

Google establishes its offices in California. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Record Amount of Users

Jan 1, 2002

544.2 million Internet users are recorded world wide. Over half of the United States population is using the Internet. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Itunes

Jan 1, 2003

Apple introduces iTunes, which allows people to purchase music rather than illegally download them. It was projected that 2.6 billion music files were being downloaded every month at this time. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Myspace

Aug 1, 2003

Founded by Chris DeWolfe, Brad Greenspan, Tom Anderson and Josh Berman, all employees of eUniverse. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/myspace-history-timeline_n_887059.html

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Mark Zuckerberg launches his website known as Facebook. It allows people to have profiles and interract with one another. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3?op=1

YouTube

Jan 1, 2005

YouTube is launched as its own company. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Record Amount of Websites live on the Internet

Jan 1, 2006

92 million websites are accounted for on the Internet. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Illegal Downloading

Jan 1, 2007

Pirated music doubles to 6.7 million downloads a week. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Google Chrome

Sep 1, 2008

Google Chrome is released for download, and within 5 years has 750 million users. http://www.google.ca/about/company/history/