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The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. ARPANET is the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet.
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ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email.
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The term “Internet” begins to be used.
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The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov.
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Google is founded in Menlo Park, California.
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The Internet celebrates is 30th anniversary.
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There are over 92 million websites online.
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Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2010.
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Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/Protect IP Act (PIPA) and to maintain Internet freedom.
