Evolution of the Internet

By muleka
  • Birth of the Internet

    Birth of the Internet

    ARPA project begins and Larry Roberts is the chief scientist
  • First Packet Radio Network

    First Packet Radio Network

    Aloha net, first packet radio network, operational at University of Hawaii.
  • First Basic Email

    First Basic Email

    First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
  • First ARPANET international connection

    First ARPANET international connection

    First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway).
  • Apple computer was found

    Apple computer was found

    Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
    Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.
    .Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager.
  • Domain Name System

    Domain Name System

    (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.
  • Microsoft Invention

    Microsoft Invention

    Microsoft was invented by Bill Gates and blew up worldwide becoming the number 1 internet program
  • Number of hosts and Pcs sold

    Number of hosts and Pcs sold

    10,000 hosts on the Internet.
    First Cisco router shipped.
    25 million PCs sold in US.
  • End of ARPAnet beginning of something great

    End of ARPAnet beginning of something great

    ARPAnet ends and Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
  • Mosaic and Internic

    Mosaic and Internic

    Mosaic Web browser developed by Marc Andreesen at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
    . InterNIC created.
    Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year.
  • Jeff Bezos and Java

    Jeff Bezos and Java

    Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com.
    Java's first public demonstration.
  • Number of Websites of the Internet

    Number of Websites of the Internet

    There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000.
  • Youtube starts

    Youtube starts

    YouTube is launched becoming one of the Internet's biggest platform
  • More than a billion people using the Internet

    More than a billion people using the Internet

    1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats.
  • Top Social Media App

    Top Social Media App

    Facebook became the top social media group having more than 2.2 billion people having access to it