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the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network allowed computers across the country to interact and share information with each other on a single network through telephone lines, it was intended for communication within government agencies and universities, the first APARNET message was sent from a computer at UCLA to a computer at Stanford university. It was supposed to send LOGIN but only sent LO before a bug crashed the network. in 1990 it was decommissioned. -
A computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson, sends the first-ever email on APARNET. -
2 DARPA scientists, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, whom are also called the father of the internet developed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), a suite of communication protocols that standardize data transmission across networks and are still being used today. -
The (DNS) Domain Name System is introduced and developed by Paul V. Mockapetris.. DNS made it possible to use human- readable domain names like www.example.com instead of IP addresses like 192.168.0.1 to navigate the web. -
The first .com domain name was registered to a computer company out of Massachusetts named Symbolics. Apple decided to commit oneself to take the .com for themselves. Now, there are over 150 million .coms registered online. Unfortunately Symbolics went out of business in 1993. -
British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed to find a better way for scientists to share data, WWW is a collection of web pages that are accessible through the network of computers called the internet. Berners-Lee wrote URL, HTML, and HTTP, which helped create a user-friendly interface for the internet that allowed it to enter everyday use within 2 or 3 years. in 1991 Berners-Lee published the first webpage, filled with instructions on how to use the WWW. -
Mosaic, the first widely popular web browser, is released and developed by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA). It introduces the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the web, making it more accessible to the public. eventually, Mosaic lost market share to Netscape Navigator in late 1994, and had only a tiny fraction of users left by 1997, when the project was discontinued. -
Microsoft launched Internet Explorer,, and Netscape Communications releases Netscape Navigator. These browsers dominated the web in the 1990s, leading to intense competition between the two companies. Netscape Navigator is now discontinued, while Internet Explorer isn't discontinued, many people aren't using it anymore due to security issues. -
When Wi-Fi became commercially available to consumers in 1997. It gave people a look at a world free of cables connecting to their modem, when they wanted to browse the web. It allows technology to exchange data via radio waves, according to Scientific American, -
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University, launch Google as a search engine that uses an algorithm (PageRank) to rank websites based on their relevance. This revolutionizes how people find information on the web. -
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Wikipedia, a free, user-contributed online encyclopedia. it became one of the most visited websites in the world, changing how people access and share knowledge. Although, today most people don't consider Wikipedia a reliable source, making many people against it. -
Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard students, launch Facebook. It was initially for only college students but as time went on it expands to a global audience and becomes a cornerstone of social media. -
YouTube is founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. This platform allows users to upload, view, and share videos, this gave a rise to video-centric content on the internet. Today people use this as a way to earn money. -
apple introduced iphone by combining a mobile phone, a touchscreen computer, and an internet browser into one device. this lead to the rise of mobile internet use and sets the stage for the mobile first web era. -
Sundar Pichai released google chrome a browser that emphasizes speed, simplicity, and security. It became popular worldwide and challenged internet explorer and firefox. -
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram, a photo-sharing app that has social media features. It quickly gained popularity for its simple interface and visually appealing format. -
Cloud computing became mainstream with services like Google Drive, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). They changed how our data is stored, shared and accessed. -
The debate over net neutrality becomes a major political issue in U.S. (FCC) The Federal Communications Commission votes to protect an open internet, preventing internet service providers (ISPS) from blocking content based on its source. -
Niantic and Nintendo release Pokémon Go, an augmented reality (AR) mobile game that encourages users to explore the real world while capturing visual creatures, leading to a surge in interest in AR and location- based gaming -
Streaming services like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon prime video had a dramatic increase in subscribers, reshaping the entertainment industry. Traditional media consumption shifts from TV and radio to online streaming. -
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to adopt remote work, and platform like zoom, Microsoft Teams, and google meet experience massive growth. the pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of workplaces, schools, and social interactions, embedding the internet deeper into our daily life.