Internet history

Internet History

Period: Oct 11, 1989 to Sep 10, 2012

End of Arpanet

Feb 28, 1990

Arpanet ended after the introduction of NSFNet.

Tim Berners Lee creates world wide web

Aug 6, 1991

World wide web created by Tim Berners Lee
This affected my life by giving me access to the internet making research easier and allowing me to communicate with friends and family.

Amazon launched

Jul 16, 1994

This affected my life by making it possible to shop for most things on the wold wide web.

Yahoo was launched

Mar 1, 1995

This affected my life by making it easier to do research.

Ebay is launched

Sep 3, 1995

This affected my life by making it easier to purchase old and new things.

Netflix was launched

Apr 14, 1998

This affected my life by allowing me to rent movies without having to go to a store and pick them up.

Google launched

Sep 4, 1998

This affected my life by making it easier to do research.

Wikipedia was launched

Jan 15, 2001

This affected my life by giving me access to a huge online encyclopidia. Today wikipedia is the sixth most visited website.

Game Fly was launched

Sep 8, 2002

This affected my life by making it possible to rent and try out video games without purchasing them.

Mark Zuckerberg creates facebook

Feb 4, 2004

This impacted my life by allowing me to communicate with my friends more easily.

Youtube was launched

Feb 14, 2005

This affected my life by giving me a way to post and view videos on the world wide web.

Sources

Sep 11, 2012

http://www.technewsdaily.com/3010-the-world-wide-web-turns-20-years-old.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/companyprofiles/a/Amazon.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Fly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
http://moodle.shanahan.org/course/view.php?id=389
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi