1969 :: Stanford, UCLA, University of Utah, and UC Santa Barbara connected to form ARPAnet
1971 :: Ray Tomlinson writes first email program
:: Project Gutenberg started by Michael Hart
1972 :: 2000 ARPAnet users
1980 :: ARPAnet crashes due to virus
1982 :: First name server deployed at the University of Wisconsin
:: TCP/IP defined
1984 :: DNS [Domain Name System] established / 2000 Internet hosts
1986 :: Creation of NSFNET allows for many more Internet connections
1987 :: 10,000 hosts
1988 :: 6000 out of 60,000 Internet hosts affected by Internet worm
1989 :: 100,00 hosts
1991 :: World Wide Web developed by CERN, HTML developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1993 :: Introduction of the Mosiac browser accelerates growth of Web.
1994 :: Online shopping, banking, and pizza ordering. Law firm sends out spam. First banner ads.
1995 :: AOL, Compuserve, Netscape. Many governmental offices around the world go online
1997 :: USAF, DOJ, CIA, and sSpice Girls web site hacked
1998 :: 320 million web pages
2002 :: 580 million people online worldwide
Based on Hobbe's Internet Timeline
Posted by iachan on Monday, 17 November 2003 @ 8:16 PM