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Propostion of the internet
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT proposed the idea of a global network of computers, and later took that idea to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he began to work on his idea. -
Licklider finishes his creation of the Internet
after four years at DARPA, Licklider finished his plans for ARPANET. -
the Internet first goes online
The Internet, then known as ARPANET was brought online in 1969 inder a contract led by ARPA. It first connected four major universities in the US (UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, and the University of Utah). -
ARPANET adds one node per month
In December of 1970, the Network Working Group (NWG) led by Steve Crocker finishes the initial Host-to-Host protocol, called the Network Control Protocol (NCP). -
Apple ll computer released
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs announce the very first Apple computer. -
appearance of first small computers
Vint Cerf at DARPA helped to form the first small computers. he also helped to conclude the ARPANET experiment -
more and more computers are being used
by the start of 1981, more than 200 computers were being used by dozens of institutes. Also the IBM PC was released in August of that year -
Apple annouces the Macintosh
in January of 1984, Steve Jobs announces his company's next computer, the Macintosh -
major countres join the Internet
Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the UK all joined the internet -
e-mails begin
Commercial e-mail relays start between MCIMail through CNRI and Compuservethrough Ohio State. -
search engines arise
several search engines such as ARCHIE, Gopher, and WAIS started to apperar. -
ARPANET shuts down
After 20 years, ARPANET went from 4 to 300,000 hosts -
WWW takes the world by storm
with the release of the WWW the internet grew drastically. the ammount it took to double internet users occured in just three months after the WWW came -
45 million people are online
approximatlry 45 million people were using the internet by 1996, with 30 million of those users in North America -
Google
Googled opened its first office in California -
Internet users continue to rise
As of January, 58.5% of the US population (164.14 million people) used the internet. World wide there are 544.2 million users -
Youtube
Youtube.com was launched -
online music downloads sky rocket
Legal online music downloads tripled to 6.7 million downloads per week. -
Microsift takes a big blow
Microsft was fined $2.5 billion by the European Commission for abusing its dominant market position, and failing to comply to their 2004 judgement which ordered Microsoft to give competitors information that would let them run Windows. -
users become vulnerable to hackers
a coding error in OpenSSL made transactions between computers. This makes users more vulnerable to having thier usernames, passwords, and personal information stolen.
