1. 1965
1966
• Communication of two computers with the use of
packet-switching papers
• Merit network was founded
• ARPANET planning
• ARPANET's first packets
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
• ARPANET hosts started using Network Control
Protocol, first host to host protocol
• Ray tomlinson invents email program to send
messages across a distributed network
• The @ sign was founded
• First email management program
• First computer to computer chat
• First inernational connections to the ARPANET held
at University College of London

2. • First public packet data service
1974
1975
• First all-inclusive email program providing replying,
forwarding, and filing capabilities
• Queen Elizabeth II's first Email
1976
1977
• THEORYNET provided electronic mail over 100
researchers in computer science over TELENET
• Possible first spam commercial message was sent
1978
1981
• BITNET was founded (Because it's Time NETwork)
• Probably when the word "Internet" was first used
1982

3. 1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
• Name server was developed by the DNS (.edu, .com,
.gov, .mil, .org, .net, and .int)
• DNS was introduced
• Number of hosts at 1,000
• Neuromancer by William Gibson; the term
"cyberspace" was used
• Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
• .COM was used
• NSFNET goes online with 56 kbit/s links
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Internet hosts exceeds to 20,000
• CISCO ships its first router
• NSFNET upgrades to 1.5 Mbit/s
1988
• Hosts breads to 100,000
1989
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4. • develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
1990
• The World Wide Web was introduced to the public
1991
1992
• First audio and video was distributed over the
internet
• The phrase "srufing the internet" was used
• Number of websites reached 600
• The White House and United nations started online
1993
1994
1995
• Netscape Communications was invented
• Microsoft creates a web browser for Windows 95
• Internet's transformation to a commercial enterprise
ex. Amazon.com, eBay, and Craiglist gone live
• Google search engine was born
1998

5. • Wireless became possible
1999
• dot-com bubble bursts such as Yahoo and eBay
2000
• debut of skype, myspace, and Safariweb
2003
2004
• Facebook goes online and the start of social
networking
• Mozilla releases Mozilla Firefox
• Youtube was launched
2005
• The Internet Governance Forum's first meetintg
2006

6. • Internet's 40th anniversarry
2009
• Photo-sharing began
(Instagram and Pinterest)
2010
• Google+ social networking
2011