internet history

  • 1960

    1960

    internet is created by a group of people but the original idea is from Leonard Kleinrocks
  • 1969

    1969

    a company named Advanced Research Projects Agency helps mayor universities to have internet it helps them with education and mostly commiunication
  • 1976

    1976

    presidential candidates jimmy carter and walter mondale use email to plan campaign
  • 1982

    1982

    the word internet is used for the first time
  • 1988

    1988

    A virus called the Internet Worm shuts down 10 precent of the worlds internet
  • 1993

    1993

    mosaic the first internet browser is created and it becomes the dominant navigation system
  • 1997

    1997

    nasa puts pictures of the pathfinder in mars . The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day
  • 1998

    1998

    google came out
  • 2000

    2000

    computer programmers begin designing and circulating viruses with greater frequency. “Love Bug” and “Stages” are two examples of self-replicating viruses that send themselves to people listed in a computer user's email address book
  • 2004

    2004

    facebook was created
  • 2005

    2005

    YouTube.com is launched
  • 2008

    2008

    Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion