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The first Personal Computer was the IBM PC, codenamed the Acorn. It featured a 4.77 Mhz 8088 processor and 16 Kb of RAM.
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The Internet was formally introduced throughout 1989, not at any specific date.
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The World Wide Web or what we use as the internet, was released to the public by Sir Tim Berners Lee.
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China gets Internet for the first time.
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The Chinese Communist Party fearing that the Chinese Democratic Party will spread classified information across the internet, cracks down on them.
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China Launches Golden Shield project to "protect the country", begins censoring internet, and to search for and suppress activists.
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1st Phase of the 2-part Golden Shield Project
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At the summer olympics in Bejing, China the golden shield projet passes international inspection.
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Hu Jintao pledges to "purify the internet" in a speech.
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The golden shield servers start to block Facebook.
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