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How it all started!
ARPA goes online in December,connecting to 4 universities. -
First Electronic Mail!
Introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist, created that @ symbol. -
Famous People using the internet!
Queen Elizabeth sent her first email. -
The word that everybody knows 'INTERNET'
The word internet is used for the first time. -
DNS is created
The DNS (Domain Name System) started -
the first big problem!
In 1988, The first virus ocurred and was called Intenet Worm and shut down about 10% of all internet servers. -
First effort to index the internet
Peter Deustch in McGill University in Montreal who tried to index the internet. -
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Population
In 1996, aproximately 45 million people are using the internet, and about 30 million are from America. -
NASA
Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts -
Napster
A college student named Shawn Fanning created Napster, which was a website that allows users to swap music. -
popularity
In 2001, it is reported that about 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent daily -
YOUTUBE
in 2005, you tube is created and now one of the most popular websites. -
alot of websites!
There are more than 92 million websites online -
Buying and Selling
In a move to challenge Google's dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.