History of the Internet

Founding of ARPA

Jan 20, 1957

US founds ARPA in response to Soviet satellite launch.

Study on cooperative network of time-sharing computers

Jan 20, 1965

Two computers linked with 12kbps line.

BBN awarded Packet Switch contract

Jan 20, 1969

Begin building nodes, researching into networking.

Project Gutenburg Started by Michael Hart

Jan 20, 1971

Ray Tomlinson modifies email program for ARPANET

Jan 20, 1972

Becomes quick hit

BBN opens TelNet

Jan 20, 1974

Queen Elizabeth Sends an Email

Mar 26, 1976

TCP splits to TCP and IP

Jan 20, 1978

First Commercial Spam Message

Jan 20, 1978

USENET Established

Jan 20, 1979

Created by Duke and UNC under .NET

Internet Activities Board (IAB) Established

Jan 20, 1983

CERT Established

Jan 20, 1988

ARPANET Ceases to Exist

Jan 20, 1990

Term 'surfing the internet" coined

Jan 20, 1992

World Bank comes online

Jan 20, 1992

Internet 25th Anniversary

Jan 20, 1994

Internet Restricted in some areas

Jan 20, 1996

Google Founded

Sep 4, 1998

Initially the crawler only reached 26 Million pages

Internet becomes available in Saudi Arabia

Jan 20, 1999

NASA tests space communications system based on Internet

Jan 20, 2008