This document outlines major milestones in the development of the Internet from 1958 to 2008. It notes that in 1958, President Eisenhower requested funds for ARPA which led to the Advanced Research Projects Agency network being established in 1969, connecting four major US universities. In 1972, electronic mail was introduced and TCP/IP was established as the standard internet communication protocol by 1983. The World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s with the creation of browsers like Mosaic and Netscape. By the early 2000s, over half of Americans and hundreds of millions worldwide were using the internet, and new applications and services like Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and social media became widely adopted.