History of the Internet By TheMasters Jan 1, 1964 Paul Baran invents “packet switching” Jan 1, 1969 DARPA invents the ARPANET network Sep 28, 1971 Ray Tomlinson invents a program that lets people send email Sep 28, 1971 The first virus is tested on the ARPANET Sep 28, 1972 The first computer-to-computer chat takes place Sep 28, 1973 The Network Voice Protocol is invented Sep 28, 1975 Steve Walker invents the first mailing list Sep 28, 1979 Kevin McKenzie invents emojis ;) Sep 28, 1983 DNS is invented Sep 28, 1988 Jarkko Oikarinen invents IRC Sep 28, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web Sep 28, 1990 Alan Emtage invents Archie Sep 28, 1990 Paypal is invented Sep 28, 1992 Jean Armour Polly coins "Surfin the Internet" Sep 28, 1992 First MBONE happens Sep 28, 1992 Mosaic! is created Sep 28, 1993 CERN says WWW will always be free for use Sep 28, 1994 First banner ad space is sold to AT&T Sep 28, 1995 Sun Microsystems invents JAVA Sep 28, 1995 EBay domain is claimed Sep 28, 1997 Jorn Barger coins the term "Blog" Sep 28, 1999 RSS is invented Sep 28, 1999 Napster is invented Sep 28, 2001 iTunes is released Sep 28, 2004 Term "Podcast" is first used Sep 28, 2004 Facebook is created Sep 28, 2005 YouTube is created Sep 28, 2006 The first Tweet is sent Sep 28, 2008 Groupon offers its first coupon
