Internet History (http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/history-color.html By xxa1xx13 Period: Jan 1, 1952 to Jan 1, 2012 HISTORY OF THE INTERNET Dec 31, 1967 arpanet http://raeleigh.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/google/ Jan 1, 1969 Interface message prossessor Apr 5, 1971 Michal Hart begins Project Gutenberg to make a copyright which works electronically available. The first is the US declaration of independence. Dec 10, 1971 23 hosts computers 15 nodes Feb 16, 1973 University College of London is one of the first international connections to ARPANET Feb 16, 1974 Networks Launched Nov 5, 1976 The Queen sends an email from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern. http://albumelossless.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/queen-complete-discography-1973-2009-flac/ Feb 16, 1978 Gary Thuerk sends what is widely considered to be the first spam message, promoting DEC. Feb 14, 1979 First time emoticons where being used http://www.icons-land.com/productvistastyleemoticons.php Feb 14, 1982 Internet was invented Jul 10, 1982 scott fahlam suggests using the :) or :( when using computers to show your feelings Feb 14, 1984 1000 hosts Aug 18, 1986 First Internet Newsgroups are born May 23, 1988 The First Internet worm is unleashed by Robbert Moris Feb 14, 1989 tim bernerrs http://datanamics.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/a-short-introduction-by-tim-berners-lee/ Feb 14, 1989 100000 hosts Jul 19, 1989 Tim Berners and the team at CERN invent the World Wide Web to make information easier to publish and access on the internet Sep 13, 1990 300000 Hosts Feb 14, 1991 Nfs removed private Oct 17, 1993 Marc Andreesen of the National Center for SuperComputer Applications in the US launches web-browser Mosaic. Feb 16, 1994 Jerry and David's make a search engine called yahoo in 1995 May 5, 1994 Hotmail starts web based email When hotmail started web based email Jun 16, 1994 Internet Magazine launches Aug 10, 1994 wrold wide web consortium (W3C) was founded Feb 16, 1995 Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab launches search engine Alta Vista, Feb 16, 1995 Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab launches search engine Alta Vista, Feb 16, 1995 Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com, http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/02/amazon-could-release-7-and-9-tablets-mid-2012-rumor/ Feb 16, 1995 eBay is launched to enable internet users to trade with each other May 6, 1995 JAVA source code was released http://www.netwind.com/html/sun-java-training-certification.html Jan 25, 1996 mirabilis (Isreal) starts ICQ Feb 16, 1996 Macromedia Flash 1.0 launches to add interactive animation to webpages. Early adopters include Disney and MSN. Apr 19, 1998 google is founded http://raeleigh.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/google/ Sep 7, 1998 Google arrives Feb 16, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook at Harvard University. Within three years, the social networking site has 30 million members. http://www.facebook.com/toolbar Feb 16, 2012 eBay is launched to enable internet users to trade with each other http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/main/city/surplus.html Feb 16, 2012 HISTORY OF THE INTERNET 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4' >HISROY OF INTERNET</a> Feb 16, 2012 VIDEO OF INTERNETS HISTORY HISTORY OF THE INTERNET by http://www.youtube.com/user/aidslibrary Feb 16, 2012 In February, Facebook announces it has 400 million active members. That's larger than the population of the US and UK combined. http://www.copyblogger.com/facebook-features-2011/ Feb 16, 2012 DICOVERY CHANNEL HISTORY OF INTERNET INTERNET HISTORY DISCOVERY CHANNEL Feb 16, 2012 engineer Ray Tomlinson invents email by adapting an internal messaging program to extend it to use the ARPANET to send messages between sites. in 1 year three quarters of ARPANET traffic is email. Oct 5, 2012 Steve jobs dies http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Six-Weeks-Past-Steve-Jobs-Is-Alive-2.jpg/