The History of the Internet

The Birth of the Internet

Oct 29, 1969

The computer scientists at BBN Technologies who created ARPANET, which eventually developed into the Internet we know today

EMAIL was developed

1971

History of EMAIL

First IBM PC

1981

The birth of the IBM PC

WorldWideWeb

1990

[The WorldWideWeb (not to be confused with the World Wide Web) was the first browser ever created by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, then renamed Nexus to differentiate from the actual World Wide Web.]

America Online

1993

Popular for the phrase "You got mail"

Amazon Launches

1995

[The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.](www.amazon.com)

Internet explorer launched

1995

Internet Explorer(formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer[b] and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year.

Dot-com bubble

Period: 1995 to 2000

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the tech bubble, and the Internet bubble) was a stock market bubble caused by excessive speculation in Internet-related companies in the late 1990s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet.

Communications Decency Act

1996

the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate content on the Internet.

Google launched

1998

[Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. ... Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.](google.com)

Wifi introduced

1999

The WiFi standard was introduced in 1997. But it had technical limitations that limited its appeal.

Wikipedia Created

2001

[Wikipedia is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web](Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org)

Facebook created

2003

[It all began in 2003, when Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg created an online programme called “Facemash”, which allowed users to objectify fellow students by comparing photos of their faces and selecting who they deemed as “hotter”. ... Online “face books” already existed at Harvard at the time.](facebook.com)

Myspace created

2003

[Myspace (originally stylized as MySpace and currently stylized as myspace) is an American social networking service. From 2005 to 2009, it was the largest social networking site in the world, reaching more than 100 million users per month](myspace.com)

GMAIL launched

2004

[the Gmail interface has become integrated with many other products and services from the company, with basic integration as part of Google Account and specific integration points with services such as Google+, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, YouTube, and Google Buzz.](mail.google.com)

Youtube launches

2005

[YouTube was originally created as a platform for anyone to post any video content they desired. It was hoped that users could use the site to upload, share, and view content without restriction. It has since grown to become one of the foremost video distribution sites in the world](www.youtube.com)

Twitter created

2006

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.

Apple kicks off smartphone

2007

The first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.

Chrome browser launched

2008

Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows

Instagram created

2012

[Instagram (commonly abbreviated to IG or Insta) is an American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger ](instagram.com)