2. 1958
1970
1972
• President
Eisenhower
requests funds to
create ARPA
• Alohanet, first
packet radio
network, operational
at University of
Hawaii.
• First basic e-mail
programs written
by Ray Tomlinson
• @ sign (at)
1976
• Apple
Computer
founded by Steve
Jobs and Steve
Wozniak.
1978
1981
• 400 Arpanet users
receive the first
ever spam email
inviting them to a
product demo.
• Microsoft creates
DOS.
• IBM announces
its first Personal
Computer
3. 1983
• William Gibson coins the term "cyberspace".
• It is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the
electromagnetic spectrum to store modify and exchange data via networked
systems.
1990
• On Christmas Day 1990, Sir Tim Berners-Lee successfully
implemented the World Wide Web.
1993
• Each time a certain HTML element is requested by a visitor, it is called a
“hit”• and is recorded into a log file.
• The development of log file analysis led to the start of commercial web
analytics with the founding of WebTrends in 1993.
1995
• Dr. Stephen Turner created Analog, the first log file
analysis program to be completely free of charge.
1996
• The first widely used hosted hit counter service, WebCounter, was born, sparking the trend of odometer-style
hit counters displayed on each website landing page.
1998
• The Google search engine is born, changing the way users
engage with the Internet.
4. 2000
The dot-com bubble
bursts. Web sites such
as Yahoo! and eBay
are hit by a large-scale
denial of service
attack, highlighting the
vulnerability of the
Internet.
2003
2004
The SQL Slammer
worm spread
worldwide in just 10
minutes.
Facebook goes online
Myspace, Skype
and the Safari Web
browser debut.
and the era of social
networking begins.
Mozilla unveils the
Mozilla Firefox
browser.
2005
2011
2011-2012
YouTube.com
Twitter and
Facebook play a
Microsoft bought
SKYPE.
large role in the
Middle East revolts.
Worldwide Internet
users break 2.4
billion.
launches.
It is a website
containing videos
where people can
view and upload
freely.