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Computers communicating
Using packet-switching technologies, two computers at MIT were able to communicate with one another -
First Internet login
SRI Students tried to login to there nodes causing the system to crash. -
The term Internet is born
Due to global networking becoming a reality, England and Norway decided to connect to ARPANET -
The first ISP
Used a commercialized version of ARPANET called TELENET -
USENET
USENET was formed in order to host news and discussion groups -
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol emerged and was define the standard protocol for the internet -
DNS
Domain Name System (DNS)
This system is created in order to facilitate web browsing -
Host exceed 20K
The internet now has 20,000 host. Cisco sold its first router. -
HTML
Tim Berners-Lee develops HyperText Markup Language at CERN -
World Wide Web
CERN Introduces World Wide Web towards the public. -
Internet Browsers
Microsoft creates an internet browser for windows 95 -
Yahoo!, Ebay, Amazon.com
Jerry Yang and David Filo create Yahoo!
Jeff Bezos Created Amazon.com
Pierre Omidyar Created Ebay.com -
IPV6
An update version of the Internet Protocol drops making internet addresses longer for more content -
Google
On 1998 google search engine was born -
.Com bubble burst
Service attacks targeting primerly Yahoo and Ebay. AOL merges with Time Warner. -
The Worm
SWL Slammer worm spread worldwide in just 10 minutes. Myspace, skype and Safari Web Browser debut. -
Facebook
Facebook goes online as well as Firefox Web browser -
Youtube
Youtube and Reddit went online -
Twitter
Twitter was founded and company's founder sends first tweet: "just setting up my twttr" -
40th Anniversary
This marks the internet's 40th anniversary. -
Instagram
Social media sites such as instagram and pinterest were born -
Online Banking
More the 50% of the us citizens start online banking -
Instagram users
Instagram generates a total of 400 million users, while twitter makes 316 million users. -
Google Assistant
Google unveils a new mobile assistant -
5G Networks
A faster more reliable network was first introduced to the public and mark the 50th anniversary of the Internet -
StarLink
SpaceX Star Link starts getting used around the world to get low orbit satellite internet access