History of the Internet By ooomillermanooo Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launches into Space Aug 1, 1964 RAND publishes a report describing a network that divided messages into segments, travelling independently Jan 1, 1967 - Donald Davies coined the term packet switching Sep 16, 1969 1969 - Apranet facilitates the first packet-switching between UCLA and SRI international Jan 1, 1972 email program is written by ray Tomlinson and the @ symbol is introduced Jan 1, 1973 75% of all networking traffic is E-mail Jan 1, 1978 the first bulleting board system Jan 1, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee coined the term “World Wide Web” Jan 1, 1993 Mosaic was released: the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet - the first internet web browser Jan 1, 1996 45 million people using the internet Jan 1, 2007 1.3 billion people connected to the internet worldwide
