Key Developments in the History of the Internet By luccyphilllips 1965 Two computers communicate with each other 1969 First message is sent between computers on four different computers 1972 Network Emails 1973 The term "Internet" was born - Global Networking 1974 First internet service provider (Telenet) 1976 Queen Elizabeth II sends an email 1980 First DialUp service 1983 Domain Name System 1987 Internet exceeds 20k hosts 1989 Sir Tim Bernes Lee invented the World Wide Web 1990 Sir Tim develops HTML 1991 Phil Zimmerman creates PGP Email Encryption Aug 6, 1991 Web went live to the world 1992 First audio and video distributed online 1994 BBC went online 1994 Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo 1995 Internet Explorer and Windows 95 was released 1995 Amazon went online 1995 The first online dating service is launched; Match.com 1997 Netflix is a mail order company for DVDs 1998 Google went online 1998 Blogs first appear 1999 Napster was founded 2000 Broadband went live in the UK 2000 Nii Quaynor bring internet Africa 2000 dot-com bubble bursts 2001 Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales 2003 Myspace went online 2004 Facebook launched 2004 Apple launches online iTunes music store 2005 Home videos go viral with the launch YouTube 2006 Facebook goes live to the public 2006 Twitter launches 2007 'Lost' becomes the first TV show available on the UK iTunes store 2007 BBC launches its catch-up service iPlayer 2007 Radiohead releases their album 'In Rainbows' as a digital download on a pay-what-you-want basis. Dec 25, 2007 The Queen broadcasts her Christmas message on YouTube 2008 Barack Obama's presidential campaign uses the web as a way to the White House. 2008 Spotify is launched 2010 China dominates internet usage 2010 Pinterest and Instagram are launched 2010 Facebook reaches 400million users 2011 Royal Wedding is biggest internet event 2011 Snapchat was launched 2012 Stop Online Piracy Act derailed in US by Google and Wikipedia 2013 Edward Snowden reveals NSA monitoring US citizens communication 2013 50% of US adults bank online 2016 Google Assistant joins Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri
