Chronology of events in the life of Internet
1969
On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network 1972
Ray Tomlinson brings email to the network, choosing @ as a way to specify email addresses belonging to other systems 1973
Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway 1974
Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ‘.com’, ‘.gov’ and ‘.edu’ comes a year later
1988
One of the first internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers
1990
Tim Berners- Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely
1993
Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page
1994
Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial web browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services
1999
Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry
2000
The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide
2004
Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook at Harvard University
2005
Launch of YouTube video-sharing site 2007
Apple releases iPhone, introducing millions more to wireless internet access
World internet population surpasses 250 million in 1999, 500 million in 2002, 1 billion in 2006 and 1.5 billion in 2008
Just imagine how would it be if there was no Internet today?
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