Internet

  • Beginning of internet

    ARPANET: 4 computers created
  • Telnet created

  • File Transfer protocol (FTP) created

    23 computers connected
  • Email was created by Ray Thomlinson

  • Vinton Cerf developed TCP/IP

  • Robert Metcalfe developed Ethernet

  • World Wide Web is invented

  • The first web browser, The world, launches

  • Netscape Navigator is released in stores

  • Some 300 million people around the world are officially online

  • Facebook launches and the Web 2.0 begins to grow rapidly

  • Iphone is released giving rise to the mobile revolution

  • 1.966 billion people are online worldwide

  • 4.3883 billion people are online

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