Internet time line

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  • ARPANET is born

    ARPANET is born
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the world's first operational packet switching network and the beginning of what was to become the global Internet.

  • Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email to send messages

    Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents email to send messages
    The first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting besides each other. However, the ARPANET network was used as the connection between the two. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP".

  • Transition from Network Control

    Transition from Network Control
    Protocol (NCP) to TCP/IP

  • Development of World Wide Web at CERN.

    Development of World Wide Web at CERN.
    Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web

  • Worm virus attacks over 6000 computers

    Worm virus attacks over 6000 computers
    one of the first computer worms distributed through the Internet

  • The number of Internet hosts passes 1 million.

    The number of Internet hosts passes 1 million.

  • Pacific Bell spends $16 billion on the internet.

    Pacific Bell spends $16 billion on the internet.
    To help build the new super high way which is the internet.

  • White House home page established on the Internet

    White House home page established on the Internet
    www.whitehouse.gov

  • Microsoft releases the first version of Internet Explorer.

    Microsoft releases the first version of Internet Explorer.

  • Yahoo!, the most popular directory goes public.

    Yahoo!, the most popular directory goes public.