The History Of The Internet By brenschaeppi Oct 29, 1969 Arpanet-The First network/hosts are created Nov 9, 1971 The First Email is sent online Jan 9, 1975 MSG developed giving email replying/forwarding abilities Jan 9, 1978 The first spam message is sent Jan 9, 1982 The emoticon :-) is introduced to be used after jokes Jan 9, 1985 The dotcom domain is created Jan 9, 1987 Hosts increase to just under 30,000 total Jan 9, 1988 Internet relay chat a precursor to instant messaging begins Jan 9, 1991 The first webpage is launched Jan 9, 1993 Mosaic becomes the first heavily downloaded browser Jan 9, 1995 Amazon.com and Ebay first start business Jan 9, 2001 Wikipedia the online encyclipedia is launched Jan 9, 2004 Facebook is launched Jan 9, 2005 Youtube is created Jan 9, 2007 Hulu is created after a joint venture with Fox,NBC,and ABC Jan 9, 2011 Social Media is used to tranform protesting in Egypt
