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History Of The Internet

By sbrockman42

  • Electronic Mail

    Electronic Mail
    Ray Tomlinson introduces electronic mail. Uses the @ sign to distinguish between internet user and the network.

  • Royal Mail

    Royal Mail
    Queen Elizabeth composes her first email, making her the first state leader to do so.

  • Internet Worm

    Internet Worm
    A virus called the internet worm is created and temporarily shuts downs 10% of the world's internet servers.

  • Mosaic

    Mosaic
    Mosaic is created by Marc Anderson, dominating the World Wide Web.

  • Google

    Google
    Google opens it's first ever office, located in California.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia is introduced and open to everyone for public use.

  • Growing Internet

    Growing Internet
    58.5% of the entire world uses the internet.

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube is launched!

  • Still Growing!

    Still Growing!
    At this point, there are over 93 million internet users worldwide.

  • WOW

    WOW
    The popular game, World of Warcraft, surpasses 9 milion users from all over the world.