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Ray Tomlinson from BBN invents an email program that sends messages across a distributed network.
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The first online chat system was named Talkomatic, was created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley, offering some channels for people to connect with each other.
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The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.
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Apple Computers was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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The National Science Foundation provided a grant to establish network services to university computer scientists.
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The Domain Name System, establishes the familiar (.edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, .int) system for naming websites. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites
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By 1986, more than 30 million computers were in use in the United States.
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
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The number of websites reaches 600 all over the world, also the White House and the United Nations go online.
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Yahoo was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo as a directory for other websites.
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The first matching site called Match.com was launched that year, it was the Tinder of that time.
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The browser Mosaic or NCSA mosaic was released in 1996, this browser popularized the use of the World Wide Web.
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The browser Google was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page,
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College student Shawn Fanning, invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet.
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Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook, goes online and the era of social networking begins.
