Timeline of the Internet

By viviannasft

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), time sharing network of computers connected between UCLA and Stanford

  • ARPANET Goes Public

    ARPANET open for public use

  • World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Caillau develop World Wide Web, followed by URL, HTML, and HTTP

  • Ban Lifted

    National Science Foundation lifts ban that didn't allow commercial use of the internet

  • Amazon, CraigsList, EBAY Go LIve

    Websites where people could buy from, which was a major step towards the Internet moving towards more commercial enterprises

  • Netflix

    People able to receive DVDs by mail

  • Google

    One of the greatest search engines launches, allowing consumers to navigate and engage with the Internet easier. Investors start to see how much potential online companies have

  • Dot Com Bubble

    Investors focus so much on the new world of e-commerce, they ignore common sense business strategies, causing many people to go bankrupt. YAHOO and eBay are impacted drastically, which reveals the vulnerability of the Internet

  • Facebook

    Facebook launches, starting a new wave of social networking. People can communictae with each other, businesses can reach out to consumers

  • E-Commerce

    Annual e-commerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide for the first time, establishing how powerful doing business online is