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A brief look at the history of the Internet, from its early origins in ARPAnet to the days of 2009
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ARPANET is released, after years of initial development by the US government's Advance Research Projects Agency. ARPA was originally launched in response to the USSR's 'Sputnik'.
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TCP (or Transfer Control Protocol) is altered, and IP (or Internet Protocol) is added to the TCP. Also, what is believed to be the first spam-message is sent, advertising an upcoming presentation of DECSYSTEM-20 computers
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Due to an accidentally-propogated status-message virus, ARPANET grinds to a complete halt
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As ARPANET ceases to exist, NSFNET is created with multi-national support.
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Worm burrows through the Net, affecting 6000~60000 servers. In response to the worm, CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) is created.
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Thanks to CERN and Tim Brenners-Lee, the World Wide Web is developed.
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As of 1993, the Web grows 341000% in a single year
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Sun Microsystems releases Java. Three months later, on August 24, Microsoft releases Windows 95.
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Internet celebrates it's unofficial 20th birthday. The SQL Slammer worm causes one of the largest and fastest-spreading DDoS attacks ever, taking only 10 minutes to spread worldwide.
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YouTube launches, sending procrastination through the roof
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Google surpasses Microsoft as 'the most valuable global brand', and also the most visited website
