Rise of the Internet

Development of ARPANET

1969

The ARPANET project led to the development of protocols for internetworking, by which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET)

TCP/IP was standardized

1982

The Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) permitted worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite)

Compuserve

1989

Public commercial use of the Internet began in mid-1989 with the connection of MCI Mail and Compuserve's email capabilities to the 500,000 users of the Internet

The Birth of WWW

1990

Tim Berners-Lee began working on WorldWideWeb: the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 0.9, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the first Web browser, the first HTTP server software, the first web server, and the first Web pages that described the project itself

Early web search engines

1993

Prior to September 1993, the World Wide Web was entirely indexed by hand. The first tool used for searching content on the Internet was Archie. Then more advanced and popular tools created: W3Catalog, Aliweb, WebCrawler, Lycos, Infoseek, etc.

Amazon.com, Inc

1994

Amazon started simply as an online bookstore

eBay

1995

eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide.

Google

1998

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The two theorized about a system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site.

Wikipedia

2001

Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia.

Facebook

2004

Mark Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.

YouTube

2005

YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. As of February 2017, there were more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day. As of August 2018, the website is ranked as the second-most popular site in the world, according to Alexa Internet.