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The very first American commercial computer, the UNIVAC 1, comes out
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The first computer network in the world to ever use packet switching
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The precursor to the internet, the ARPANET was only available to government and universities.
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Scientist Ray Tomlinson creates the e-mail, and is the one who decides the @ symbol will be used for it.
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A free source of books online is launched, allowed people to upload and download books for free.
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The term "internet" is invented, shorthand for "Internetwork"
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The ARPANET is handed off to another branch of the government The National Science Foundation
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The first spam is sent out, with 600 emails sent to people all over California via the ARPANET.
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A connection is set up between two universities in Northern California involving more efficient packet switching.
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The National Science Foundation creates the Computer Science Network (CSNET), which allowed branches of government without high speed connections to connect via dial-up.
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The file transfer protocol, which lets users easily transfer files, is invented.
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The National Science Foundation brings a new standard of computing to the ARPANET, now known as the NSFNET, allowing all colleges and universities across the country to connect.
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NASA creates their own internet in order to communicated with other space scientists worldwide.
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Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web, a protocol that easily allows average people to use the new Internet.
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The first commercial internet service provider, "The World", opens to consumers for business.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, also invents the first web server.
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The first internet browser of all time is invented by Tim Berners-Lee, called WorldWideWeb
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The first search engine of all time, called Archie, is invented. It allows you to search through a website's directory.
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As more countries pick up the technology behind it and start connecting, the NSFNet is renamed to the Internet.
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In 1993, the government and the united nations started their own web pages and got their own special domains for it.