The History of the Internet

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    History of the Internet

  • Sputnik I launched

    Internet is released.
  • ARPANET created

    ARPANET created

  • First ARPANET international connections

    First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway).
  • Intel releases the 8080 processor

    Intel releases the 8080 processor

  • Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

  • Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.

  • IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS

  • Cisco systems founded

  • Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge

    .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.

  • 5000 hosts on ARPAnet/Internet

  • 10,000 hosts on the Internet

  • 25 million PCs sold in US.

  • McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free

    McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free

  • ARPAnet ends

    Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
  • Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com.

    Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com.

  • Windows 95 released

    Windows 95 released

  • There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet

    Numbers doubling since February 2000
  • YouTube.com launches

    YouTube.com launches

  • There are an estimated 92 million websites online

  • Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

  • Microsoft launches its various consumer versions of Microsoft Vista.

  • Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads

  • 1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats

  • Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand."

    Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand."

  • Google becomes the most visited website on the Internet.

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