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The US government creates ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in response to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union.
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J.C.R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who proposed a "galactic network" of computers that could talk to one another. This would enable government leaders the ability to communicate.
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A M.I.T. scientist developed a way to send information from one computer to another. Without "packet switching" the US government would be vulnerable to an enemy attack.
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ARPANET delivers first message a "node to node" communication from one computer to another. One computer was located in a research lab and the other computer was at Stanford. The message was "LOGIN", but it crashed the ARPA network. The Stanford computer only received the first two letters.
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Ray Tomlinson a Cambridge, Massachusetts scientist invented electronic mail. He used the @ symbol to distinguish between the senders name and network name.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet
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The Queen sends out her first email as a demonstration of networking technology.
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ARPANET adopted TCP/IP and from there researchers began to assemble the "network of networks" that became the modern internet.
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Tim Berners-Lee a computer programmer in Switzerland introduced the World Wide Web (WWW) a "web" of information that anyone on the internet could retrieve. Berners-Lee created the internet we know today.
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Marc Andreessen and his team at the University of Illinois invented Mosaic (later became Netscape) a user friendly way to search the web.
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Dr. Henning Schulzrinne co-develops new protocols that enable VOIP (voice over the internet protocol).
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Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia a free and open content encyclopedia.
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Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook.
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
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Over 1 billion websites on the WWW confirmed by NetCraft in its October 2014 Web Server Survey and first estimated and announced by Internet Live Stats.
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According to a report from International Telecommunication Union there are 3.2 billion internet users.
