History of the Internet

ARPA

Jan 24, 1969

Designed for research, education, government organizations and communication

Email

Jan 24, 1972

Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson.

TCP/IP

Jan 24, 1973

becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet.

jimmy carter

Jan 26, 1976

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.

Internet

Jan 24, 1982

The word “Internet” is used for the first time.

internet index

Jan 26, 1990

The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal

Gopher

Jan 26, 1991

Gopher, which provides point-and-click navigation, is created at the University of Minnesota and named after the school mascot. Gopher becomes the most popular interface for several years.

NCSA

Jan 26, 1993

Mosaic is developed by Marc Andreeson at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Ebay

Jan 26, 1995

Pierre Omidyar launched a site called Auction Web and its first item sold was a book on how to use compters.

Youtube

Jan 26, 2005

YouTube.com is launched.

Websites

Jan 26, 2006

There are more than 92 million websites online