Internet

Internet

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  • USSR launches Sputnik and USA creates ARPA

    The USSR launches the first satellite, Sputnik. To compete against the USSR's success at launching the first satellite, the United States Department of Defense creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.

  • New Information Network

    Rand Corporation proposes a new information network so that the United States could successfully communicate after a nuclear war.

  • ARPANET connection is made

    The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. ARPANET is the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet.

  • Domain Name System

    Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.

  • The Internet Worm

    A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.

  • The World Wide Web is created

    Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks (specially programmed words, phrases, buttons, or graphics). Unlike other Internet protocols, such as FTP and email, the Web is accessible through a graphical user interface.

  • First web server

    Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the Internet.

  • Netscape is founded

    Jim Clark and Marc Andreeson found Netscape Communications in Mountain View, California. Netscape is the first successful commercial Web browser.

  • Yahoo!

    Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more

  • 45 million people using the internet

    Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, with roughly 30 million of those in North America (United States and Canada), 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific (Australia, Japan, etc.). 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online.

  • 1.9 billion web surfers

    Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2010.