The Internet

During the 1960's

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1969

• RAND, CLA and MIT came up with Packet Switching,
• DARPA develops ARPANET.

4 "nodes" online

Jan 1, 1968

During the 1970's

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 1979

• First electronic message sent- Mailing lists created.

ARPANET grows to 30 nodes

Jan 1, 1972

Number of users on Public TCP networks outnumbers ARPANET

Jan 30, 1977

First virus sent on ARPANET

Jan 1, 1980

HELLO

ARPANET adopts TCP/IP

Jan 1, 1982

DNS introduced: Number of online hosts passes 1,000.

Jan 1, 1984

USNET (Moderated Newsgroups) introduced

Jan 1, 1984

During the 1990's

Period: Jan 1, 1990 to Dec 31, 1999

• ARPANET dies.
• First commercial dial-up services become available.
• Orgs worldwide get onlines: World Bank, UN, White House.
• Flash Introduced.

Tim Berners-Lee creates WWW @ CERN

Jan 1, 1991

First commercial: Pizza Hut

Jan 1, 1994

Yahoo founded

Jan 1, 1994

Google founded

Jan 1, 1996

Browser wars between Netscape and Microsfot signal new era of software development

Jan 1, 1996

6.5 million sites online

Jan 1, 1999

Flash video created

Jan 1, 2002

Facemash created

Jan 1, 2003

YouTube created

Jan 1, 2005