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Inventors invented the internet during the Cold War to be used as a government weapon- for use of communications and sharing information
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ARPANET using packet switching to allow many computers to communicate on one network
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First email was sent
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National Science Foundation opened supercomputer centers and created a network to link them together
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World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Sir Tim Berners- Lee- which was the first web-browser
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The Mosaic was developed in 1993 but discontinued in 1997
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Berners-Lee founded an organization that led the development of the Web to its full potential
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Netscape was released, this was the first search engine available
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The Internet Explorer was released
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ICANN- Internet Coprteration for Assigned Names and Numbers was formed (ICANN maintained and coordinates the internet- mainly the IP's and domain names)
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Google was officially incorporated