HISTORY OF THE TIMELINE By xxa123xxa5 Period: Jan 1, 1955 to Feb 14, 2012 HISTORY OF THE INTERNET Jan 1, 1957 sputnik was launched Jan 1, 1962 Computer research program began Leader John Licklider Jan 1, 1962 packet-switiching networks were developed Jan 1, 1962 computer research program was leaded by John Licklider Jan 1, 1965 first " wide area network " was created First connection between Berkely and MIT Jan 1, 1967 Plans for ARPANET were published Jan 1, 1969 Interface message processer Jan 1, 1971 there are 23hosts in a computeer and 15 nodes Jan 1, 1971 people start to communicate over the network Jan 1, 1972 ARPANET went public Jan 1, 1973 First international connection to London Jan 1, 1974 network was launched Jan 1, 1974 TCP/ip began Jan 1, 1976 Queen Elizabeth orderd pizza online for the first time in history Jan 1, 1978 TCP split into TCp and IP Jan 1, 1979 the first time the emoticons were every used Jan 1, 1982 Internet is born using the TCP/IP standerd Jan 1, 1983 this was when the internet became bigger Jan 1, 1984 introduction to DNS Jan 1, 1984 Joint Academic Network (JAN) built to connect UK Universities to each other over the internet Jan 1, 1989 100,000 hosts Jan 1, 1989 Tim Berners - Lee thought of the idea of having a world wide web Jan 1, 1992 this was the year when multimedia changed the face of the internet Jan 1, 1994 hotmail starts web based email Jan 1, 1994 World wide web consortim was founded Jan 1, 1994 there were 32 million hosts and 3,000 websites Jan 1, 1994 world wide web consortium (W3C) was founded Jan 1, 1995 Java source code was released Jan 1, 1995 there were 64 million hosts and 25,000 websites Jan 1, 1996 Mirabilis (Isreal) starts ICQ Jan 1, 1996 the browser war began, it was the internet vs microsoft Jan 1, 1996 micrsoft was entered Jan 1, 1998 google is founded Jan 1, 2000 the internet had 20,000,000 websites Jan 1, 2001 there were 110 million hosts and 30 million websites Feb 16, 2004 facebook goes public Feb 1, 2010 facebook anounces it has 400 million members. thats more then the population of UK and US combined Oct 5, 2011 steve jobs dies
