Timeline: History of the Internet

Aug 1, 1962

The Idea

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

Apr 7, 1969

ARPANET Created

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

Dec 1, 1969

ARPANET Launched

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

Jan 1, 1972

Email

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

Jan 1, 1973

TCP/IP

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

Jan 1, 1984

DNS

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

Jan 1, 1988

Internet Worm

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

Jan 1, 1993

Mosaic

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

Jan 1, 1995

Java

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

Jan 1, 1996

45 Million Users

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

Jul 8, 1997

NASA Breaks Records

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

Jan 1, 1998

Google

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

Jan 1, 2002

Record Amount of Users

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

Jan 1, 2003

Itunes

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

Aug 1, 2003

Myspace

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

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook

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