WEBYODA'S COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET TIMELINE
The History of the Internet
Internet Timeline Key Events
2010 - iPad Released / eBooks Dominate
2009 - Google Voice / 4G / Mobile Data Milestone
2008 - Netflix Streaming / Cloud Computing / Tethering / App Stores
2007 - Google Docs / Kindle / iPhone/iOS / Android
2006 - Twitter / Web 2.0 / Standards Awareness
2005 - TiVo / VOIP / YouTube / Google Earth
2004 - Facebook / Firefox / Internet Speed
2003 - Myspace / Skype / iTunes Store / 3G
2002 - eBay and Paypal Merge / Amazon Grows
2001 - Wikipedia / New TLDs / Radio Silence / Tech Stock Blues
2000 - Internet Appliances / COPPA / Web Attacks
1999 - Internet 2 / Napster / Domain Name Sales
1998 - Google / PayPal / NetFlix / eBook Readers / Postage
1997 - Winamp / Wi-Fi / Blog / business.com
1996 - Internet Explorer / Java / Flash
1995 - eBay / Amazon / Netscape / RealAudio / Domain Fees
1994 - Yahoo / Pizza Hut / Gore / NSF Upgrades
1993 - InterNic / Mosaic / 10 Million Users
1992 - Tim Berners-Lee Creates the WWW
1991 - CSNET Is Taken Out Of Service
1990 - ARPANET Terminated / MP3 Is Born
1989 - First Public Internet Service Provider (ISP)
1988 - 45 Mbps (T3) Approved / IANA Created
1986 - PERL Scripting Language is Created
1985 - NSF Deploys The 1.544 Mbps(T1) NSFNET
1984 - The Internet Gets Fast / DNS Created
1983 - Internet Is Born / America Online
1981 - NSF Creates The 56 Kbps CSNET
1979 - Usenet Newsgroups Created / BITNET Created
1978 - First Spam Email / PC Modem
1976 - UUCP Copy Protocol / Royal Email
1975 - Vinton G. Cerf "Father of the Internet"
1973 - International ARPANET Connections/ Ethernet Is Created
1972 - ARPANET Is Publicly Demonstrated
1971 - First Email / First eBook / ARPANET Grows
1969 - The 50Kbps ARPANET Is Tested With 4 Nodes
1968 - ARPANET Is Proposed and Contracted Out
1967 - NPL Tests The First Packet-Switching Network
1964 - A Network That Could Withstand A Nuclear Bomb
1961 - Packet-Switching Theory Is Created
1960 - Ted H. Nelson Coins "hypertext" and "hypermedia"
1957 - Sputnik Launches ARPA
1945 - The Concept of HyperText is Conceived
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
1866 - The Next Trans-Atlantic Cable Is A Success
1858 - The First Trans-Atlantic Cable Attempt
1837 - Samuel Morse Invents The Telegraph