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timeline of the internet

By lordderek

  • Dec.1966

    ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chief scientist

  • 1976

    Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail

  • 1989

    McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free. Quantum becomes America Online.

  • 1990

    ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web

  • August 24, 1995

    Windows 95 released

  • 1999

    AOL buys Netscape; Andreesen steps down as full-time employee

  • November 2001

    First uncompressed real-time gigabit HDTV transmission across a wide-area IP network takes place on Internet2.

  • 2005

    YouTube.com launches

  • October 2006

    Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction

  • February 2007

    Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads