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The USSR launches the first satellite, Sputnik. To compete against the USSR's success at launching the first satellite, the United States Department of Defense creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
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Rand Corporation proposes a new information network so that the United States could successfully communicate after a nuclear war.
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The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc.
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ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email.
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The term “Internet” begins to be used.
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Comet, the first commercial email software, is offered by the Computer Corporation of America for $40,000.
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Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the Internet.
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The Internet takes off as part of the world’s fastest growing information network.
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The independent programming language, JAVA, is created by Jim Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
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there are 1 million domain registrants on the Internet.
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Google is founded in Menlo Park, California
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Wikipedia is launched.
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Facebook is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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YouTube launches.
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Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide
