Evolution of the Internet Timeline

By tiarra.berkley

  • 1969

    1969
    computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.The first message sent across the network was supposed to be “Login”, but reportedly, the link between the two colleges crashed on the letter “g”.

  • 1983

    1983
    the deadline for Arpanet computers to switch over to the TCP/IP protocols developed by Vinton Cerf. A few hundred computers were affected by the switch.

  • 1989

    1989
    the proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee. It was written to persuade CERN that a global hypertext system was in their best interest. It was originally called “Mesh”

  • 1990

    1990
    a college student in Montreal, created the first search engine for a school project.

  • 1991

    1991
    The first web page was created

  • 1993

    1993
    The first web browser available to the public, Mosaic launches

  • 1994

    1994
    Netscape Navigator was released this year

  • 1996

    1996
    The first webmail service was launched

  • 2001

    2001
    Wikipedia was launched

  • 2004

    2004
    Facebook launches and Web 2.0 begin to grow

  • 2007

    2007
    The iphone was released making it the mobile revolution

  • 2010

    1.966 people were online worldwide

  • 2022

    5.07 billion people are online worldwide