History of the Internet By mackayj Dec 24, 1925 Timeline Summary Dec 24, 1945 The Concept of HyperText is Conceived Dec 24, 1957 Sputnik Launches ARPA Dec 24, 1961 Packet-Switching Theory Is Created Dec 24, 1964 A Network That Could Withstand A Nuclear Bomb Dec 24, 1967 NPL Tests The First Packet-Switching Network Dec 24, 1968 ARPANET Is Proposed and Contracted Out Dec 24, 1969 The 50Kbps ARPANET Is Tested With 4 Nodes Dec 24, 1971 First Email / First eBook / ARPANET Grows Dec 24, 1972 ARPANET Is Publicly Demonstrated Dec 24, 1973 International ARPANET Connections/ Ethernet Is Created Dec 24, 1978 First Spam Email and PC Modem Dec 24, 1983 Internet Is Born and America is Online Dec 24, 1984 The Internet Gets Fast and the DNS is created Dec 24, 1986 PERL Scripting Language is Created Dec 24, 1989 The First Public Internet Service Provider (ISP) Dec 24, 1990 ARPANET is Terminated and the MP3 Is Born Dec 24, 1992 Tim Berners-Lee Creates the WWW Dec 24, 1993 10 Million Users of the Internet Dec 24, 1994 Yahoo and Pizza Hut Online Dec 24, 1995 eBay and Amazon Created and Domain Fees introduced Dec 24, 1996 Internet Explorer and Java and Flash Created Dec 24, 1997 Creation of the Wi-Fi Dec 24, 1998 Google, PayPal, NetFlix and eBook Readers developed Dec 24, 1999 Domain Name Sales Dec 24, 2000 Internet Appliances and Web Attacks Introduced Dec 24, 2001 Wikipedia created Dec 24, 2002 eBay and Paypal Merge Dec 24, 2003 Skype (Online Video Sharing) and 3G Created Dec 24, 2004 Facebook and Firefox Created and Internet Speed was sped up Dec 24, 2005 YouTube and Google Earth Created Dec 24, 2007 iPhone/iOS and Android Competition Dec 24, 2008 Tethering and the App Store Dec 24, 2009 4G and Mobile Data Milestone Dec 24, 2010 iPad Released, Pinterest and Instagram Dec 24, 2011 Digital Magazines avaliable Dec 24, 2012 Encyclopaedia Britannica published Dec 24, 2014 2,923,000,000 internet users Dec 24, 2014 A Domain Explosion and HTML5 Introduced
