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ABC, short for Atanastoff-Berry Computer, started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff.
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The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
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J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark creates "On-Line Man Computer Communication"
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ARPA studies computers directly linked in Massachusetts and California.
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ALOHAnet developed by Norm Abramson.
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The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson in Cambridge MA, uses the @ symbol in the email address.
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The design of the Internet was done in 1973 and published in 1974.
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Larry Robert creates the telenet.
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Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which allowed coaxial cable to move data extremely fast.
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The word 'Internet' was first used.
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DNS is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
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Writer William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace.”
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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The National Science Foundation began deploying its new T1 lines
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Armour Polly coins the term “Browsing the Internet”
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The ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world".
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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Number of domain hosts breaks 1,000.
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Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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The WWW war is fought between Microsoft and Netscape.
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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There are approximately 100 million computers connected online.
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Internet World Stats counted over 544 million users on the Internet.
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Facebook is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Internet World Stats counts over 1.4 billion web surfers worldwide.
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Twitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East.
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Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act/Protect IP Act and to maintain Internet freedom.
