An Abbreviated History of the Internet

By tamarafoster

  • Dialing-Up

    Dialing-Up
    Lawrence Roberts of MIT connects a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines.

  • Connectioning

    Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.

  • Networking

    Networking
    Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.

  • Emailing

    Emailing
    Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.

  • Networking

    ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.

  • Routing

    The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 20,000. Cisco ships its first router.

  • Yahoo-ing

    Yahoo-ing
    Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The company was later incorporated in March 1995.

  • Googling

    Googling
    The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.

  • Bubble Bursting

    Bubble Bursting
    The dot-com bubble bursts. Web sites such as Yahoo! and eBay are hit by a large-scale denial of service attack, highlighting the vulnerability of the Internet. AOL merges with Time Warner

  • Facebooking

    Facebooking
    Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser.

  • Online Banking

    Online Banking
    Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults report that they bank online, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.