Timeline

  • The ARPANET

    The ARPANET

    Lawrence G. Roberts haves a plan for the ARPANET, an ARPA-funded computer network that becomes a reality in 1969
  • Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

    Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

    Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf collaborate to create a protocol for linking multiple networks together. This becomes later the TCP/IP.
  • PhoneNet

    PhoneNet

    The PhoneNet system and the first commercial network named Telenet are establish and connected to ARPANET.
  • The first domain

    The first domain

    In 1985, the first domain is registered, symbolics.com, a domain that belonged to a computer manufacturer.
  • Goodbye ARPANET

    Goodbye ARPANET

    ARPANET formally decommissioned.
  • Windows 95

    Windows 95

    Microsoft launches Windows 95.
  • Google

    Google

    Google is founded.
  • The first internet virus

    The first internet virus

    The first internet virus capable of copying and sending itself to a user´s address is discovered.
  • The first cat video

    The first cat video

    The first ever cat video is in the internet.
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    Facebook pens to anyone with valid email adress.
  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin

    Bitcoin is first introduced by a developer using Satoshi Nakamoto as his pseudonym.
  • Gmail - Google

    Gmail - Google

    Google tells Gmail users Facebook is a trap.
  • IPv4

    IPv4

    IPv4 addresses run out.
  • New secure internet plan

    New secure internet plan

    The inventor of the World Wide Web has revealed a plan for a new secure internet.
  • The latest in internet history

    The latest in internet history

    It´s estimated that more than four billion people (close to 60% of the world´s population) was online in March 2019. Imagine how many there are actually!