History Of The Internet By Ellie_Smith98 Apr 2, 1957 Development of electronic computers Sep 12, 1960 ARPANET developed Sep 17, 1961 First packet switching papers Sep 17, 1966 Merit Network founded Sep 17, 1966 Arpanet planning starts Sep 17, 1972 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established Sep 17, 1973 CYCLADES network demonstrated Sep 17, 1974 Telenet packet-switched network Sep 17, 1981 BITNET established Sep 12, 1982 Internet introduced Nov 15, 1986 Access to supercomputer sites in the United States Sep 17, 1990 ARPANET decommissioned Apr 7, 1995 The internet was comercialized Apr 7, 1995 ebay - online auction and shopping Sep 12, 1995 Amazon - online retailer Nov 19, 1996 hotmail - free web-based email Feb 15, 1998 Internet corporation for assigned names Aug 21, 1998 Google search Jan 24, 1999 Wireless networking Dec 16, 2000 dot-com starts Dec 7, 2001 Wikipedia Jun 20, 2003 National Lamdarail founded Jul 15, 2004 Facebook Sep 15, 2005 Youtube Jul 13, 2006 First meeting of the internet governance forum Oct 26, 2006 Twitter Aug 31, 2011 Google +
