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The first WAN (wide area network) was made by Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts. It was a precursor to the ARPANET.
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ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) tried to send its first message LOGIN, but only the letters L and O made it before it crashed.
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During the summer and autumn of 1971 the first ARPANET email was sent. It was sent between two side-by-side computers.
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Transmission Control Program (TCP) becomes a method of communication. It is the basis of Internet communication.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the first Apple computer. It was called the Apple I and first sold for $666.66.
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The word internet has been used as early as 1883. It wasn't until 1982 that the word was used to describe the Internet we know today.
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Domain Name System is established and has address extensions like .com, .org, and .edu. It was made by four UC Berkeley students—Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou.
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The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was created to promote advanced education and research in the USA. It later developed into a major backbone of the Internet we use today.
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One of the first worm viruses spread via the internet. It shut down about 10% of the internet.
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WWW (World Wide Web) is created by Tim Berners-Lee. It was made at CERN, the European Physical Laboratory.
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ARPANET shuts down, and is replaced by NSFNet.
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Linus Torvalds creates an Open Source OS called Linux. He then goes on to be a leader in Open Source developing
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For the first time the WWW is open to the public and is available for anyone to use. This is the day Berners-Lee published a short summary of the World Wide Web, which marked its beginning.
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The white house laucnhes it website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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Blogs became more accesible to the public, as people were making websites allowing others to make blogs. An example is Open Diary.
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Google opened their first office in Menlo Park, California. Google began as a university project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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The video sharing website was created by three former paypal employees. One year later it was bought by Google, and still remains under Google today.
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2006 marked the milestone of 92 million webites.
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Google releases their own Internet browser, called Google Chrome. It is free, and as of January 2015 51% of people use it as their prefered browser.
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In the US, 56% of Americans have a smartphone which can acess the internet.
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45% of people who use the Internet and are in a serious relationship from ages 18-29 say the internet has affected their relationship.
