1. 1967
• ARPANET is born
1971
• The first virus CREEPER was created
1973
• ARPANET users turn 35
1976
• Apple founded.
1978
• 400 arpanet users recieve first ever e-mail
Spam
1979
• Arpanet user first used emoticon -)
2. 1980
• Apple IPO - market cap 1.7 billion pounds.
1981
• IBM launches the personal computer.
1982
• The Elk Cloner Virus created.
1987
• Stoned Virus created.
1988
• The first worm-- "Morris" created.
1990
• ARPANET decomissioned
3. 1991
• Tim Lee at CERN introduces the WWW.
1993
• Mosaic web browser was launched.
1994
• Yahoo! founded.
1995
• Microsoft launches Internet Explorer
• Amazon and eBay founded.
1997
• AOL launches instant messenger.
1998
• Google founded.
4. 1999
• People worldwide fear computer crashes (Millenium Bug)
2000
• iloveyou-virus has infected 50 million computers in 10 days
2001
• Wikipedia launches.
2002
• Friendster founded.
2003
• Skype launched
2004
• Mozilla launches the Firefox browser
5. 2005
• Worldwide internet users break the 1 billion
2006
• Twitter launched
2008
• Google launched Chrome
2011
• Death of Steve Jobs.
2012
• Worldwide users break 2.4 billion