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USSR Launches Sputnik into space, to create global communications.
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President Eisenhower gets the funds to create ARPA.
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The Modem is created by Bell Labs, which will allow people to communicate through computers.
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Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, len Kleinrock writes the first paper on packet switching.
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Paul Baron writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks" ,which was was the first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized network.
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Two computers talked to eachother using packet-switching technology.
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By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected to ARPNAET, the budding Internet was off the ground.
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The Network Working Groupworking under S. Crocker finished the ARPANET Host-to-Host Protocol, called the Network Control Protocol.
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Electronic mail is introduced by computer scientist Ray Tomlinson. The @ symbol is used to separate the sender's name and the network name.
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Presidential candidates Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.
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Apple was founded on April 1st, 1976.
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The word "Internet" is used for the first time.
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America Online, bebuts. It provides email, elecronic bulletin boards, news, and other info.
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Dr. Stephen Wolff develops the NFSNET, the first U.S. open computer network.
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Google opens it's first office in California.
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The World Wide Web is open to everyone on the internet.
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The White House launches it's website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, 30 million in North America.
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Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia.
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Internet Society founds the first Internet Hall of Fame.
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By 2010 China has 450 million internet users
