History of the internet

By lucasscott21

  • 1969

    ARPANET was started in 1969 with four un iversities

  • 1970

    ARPANET expands with Harvard,MIT,and BBN

  • 1971

    Ray Tomlinson developed the system to send and receive email in 1971

  • HTML

    Tim berners lee was a scientist working at CERN in switzerland and created HTML and the world wide web

  • New U.S. backbone by the national science foundation in the 1980's

    led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies.

  • Commercialization of what was by the 1990's an international network

    got popular and incorporated into virtually every aspect of modern human life.

  • Internet use grew rapidly

    in 1994 only 3% of american classrooms had the internet while by 2002 92% did