History of the Internet By facebooker_10215741771717090 Oct 4, 1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1966 APRANET was founded 1971 First network email sent 1974 TCP/IP Proposed 1984 .com .org .gov .mil .edu created 1989 mp3 was patented 1990 The World Wide Web was created 1993 First Web Browser, Mosaic, is created 1996 Birth of Hotmail 2005 YouTube is created