The History of THE INTERNET

1957
USSR launches Sputnik, the first satellite to be placed in orbit. In response, being the
competitive, USA creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) with the mission of
becoming the leading force in science and new technologies.

1965
Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Merril communicate with one another using computers
connected via a low-speed dial-up telephone line in Massachusetts and California, creating the
first Wide Area Network and laying the groundwork for the internet.

1969
In 1969, two years before the calculator was introduced to consumers (History of the Internet
and WWW) and the year after National Public Radio was established, the precursor of the
Internet, ARPANET, was born. It connected four Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute,
and the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara,
Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.

1972
There were computers connected at about two dozen sites when the first email was sent by
inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C.,
to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" Taken from the Bible, Numbers
23:23, and recorded on a paper tape, the phrase had been suggested to Morse by Annie
Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend.

1974
Robert Kahn and VintoCerf publish "A protocol for Packet Network Communication" laying the
groundwork for TCP/IP and much larger, interconnected computer networks. The word
"internet"is first used.

1973
ARPANET isbnow 78% e-mail.

1974
proposal to networks without a central governing body.

1975
There were 63 sites.

1978
Gary Thuerk creates spam.

1980
200 host computers were connecting 20,000 people at university. military, and government
locations. Twelve years later the number of hosts had grown to more than a million
internationally (PBS Timeline), and in January of 1999 there were more than 43 million.
1981
BITNET, created by IBM, "Because It's Time NETwork" Started as a cooperative network at the
City University of New York, with the first connection to Yale.

1983
ARPANET goes TCP/IP that enabled an interconnected network of networks and is the
foundational technology of the internet.

1984
Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions
such as .com, .org, and .edu. Writer William Gibson coins the term "cyberspace."

1986
NSFNET is founded, creating the backbone and providing the investment needed to create the
internet as we know it today.

1988
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet
servers.

1989
Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web, which opens the door for the internet to go
mainstream. The first commercial ISP, the world launches.

1991
Gopher, which provides point-and-click navigation, is created at the University of Minnesota and
named after the school mascot. Gopher becomes the most popular interface for several years.

1993
First web page. The first web bowser available to the public, Mosaic launches.

1994
Netscape navigator is released in stores that helped to make the Web graphical rather than a
text-only experience.

1998
Napster is created. Google also opens its first office, in California.

2000
Some 300 million people around the world are offically online.

2004
Internet Worm, called MyDoom or Novarg, spreads through Internet servers. About 1 in 12 email
messages are infected. Facebook launches as college network and the Web 2.0 begins to grow
rapidly.

2005
YouTube.com is launched.
2007
The iPhone is released, giving rise to the mobile revolution.

2006
There are more than 92 million websites online.

2007
Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week. Colorado Rockies'
computer system crashes when it receives 8.5 million hits within the first 90 minutes of World
Series ticket sales. The online game, World of Warcraft, hits a milestone when it surpasses 9
million subscribers worldwide in July.

2009
Are more faster internet is created and the pro upgrade the old websites.

2010
1.966 billion people are online worldwide.

2022
5 billion people are online.