The History of the Internet

By SAMhsie

  • Leonard Kleinrock publishes a paper...

    On May 31st Leonard Kleinrock publishes a paper called "Information in Large Communication Nets"
  • JCR Licklider

    JCR Licklider

    JCR Licklider talks about his idea of a galactic network.

  • The Military

    The military and four universities throughout America receive the internetpurely because if the communication system was destroyed they would have a back-up.

  • Ray Tomlinson

    Ray Tomlinson releases the e-mail system.
  • The name

    The name

    The name internet is used for the first time.
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee starts the World Wide Web (www.).

  • 45 million

    45 million approx. people are using the internet.
  • Google starts

    Google starts

    Google starts their first office in California
  • 150 million

    150 million

    150 million people are using the internet. MySpace.com is launched.

  • Around 9.8 billion

    Around 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent everyday. Wikipedia is started.
  • Youtube

    Youtube

    YouTube is created

  • There are

    There are about 92 millionwebsites online