History of the Internet

First communication within pc's

1965

Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another

Interface Message Processor

1968

Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another

First message

Oct 29, 1969

The first message is "LO," which was an attempt by student Charles Kline to "LOGIN" to the SRI computer from the university. However, the message was unable to be completed because the SRI system crashed.

E-mail

1972

BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. The Internetworking Working Group (INWG) forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.

Global Networking

1973

Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.

CSNET

1981

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a grant to establish the Computer Science Network (CSNET) to provide networking services to university computer scientists.

NSFNET goes online

1986

The National Science Foundation’s NSFNET goes online to connected supercomputer centers at 56,000 bits per second — the speed of a typical dial-up computer modem. Over time the network speeds up and regional research and education networks, supported in part by NSF, are connected to the NSFNET backbone, effectively expanding the Internet throughout the United States.

World wide web

1991

CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.

First audio

1992

The first audio and video are distributed over the Internet. The phrase "surfing the Internet" is popularized.

Number of websites increases

1993

The number of websites reaches 600 and the White House and United Nations go online.

Yahoo!

1994

Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University.

First 3D animation

1996

A 3D animation dubbed "The Dancing Baby" becomes one of the first viral videos.

Netflix

1997

Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a company that sends users DVDs by mail.

Google is created

1998

The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.

WordPress

2003

The blog publishing platform WordPress is launched.

Facebook and Mozilla go online

2004

Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Youtube is launched

2005

YouTube.com launches. The social news site Reddit is also founded.

Twitter is presented

2006

Twitter launches. The company's founder, Jack Dorsey, sends out the very first tweet: "just setting up my twttr."

Bitcoin is created

2009

On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network came into existence with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of bitcoin (block number 0), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins

Pinterest and Instagram

2010

The social media sites Pinterest and Instagram are launched.

Google assistant

2016

Google unveils Google Assistant, a voice-activated personal assistant program, marking the entry of the Internet giant into the "smart" computerized assistant marketplace. Google joins Amazon's Alexa, Siri from Apple, and Cortana from Microsoft.