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Timeline of the Internet

By JORDYN1

  • 1969

    1969
    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.

  • 1972

    1972
    ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email.

  • 1973

    1973
    The term “Internet” begins to be used.

  • 1990

    1990
    The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee.

  • 1992

    1992
    Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov.

  • 1998

    1998
    Google is founded in Menlo Park, California.

  • 1999

    1999
    The Internet celebrates is 30th anniversary.

  • 2006

    2006
    There are over 92 million websites online.

  • 2010

    2010
    Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2010.

  • 2012

    2012
    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.