Net

The history of the Internet

  • Creation and name

    Creation and name
    It was created in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET
  • First videocall

    First videocall
    April 20, 1964: Picturephone Dials Up First Transcontinental Video Call. Bell's Picturephone service dials up the world's first videophone call, and the New York World Fair's science consultant William L.
  • The first spam message

    The first spam message
    The first unsolicited bulk email was reportedly sent in 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager promoting a new model of computer. Thuerk pitched to roughly 400 prospects via ARPANET, a forerunner to the modern internet, and reaped $13 million in sales for his company.
  • The first internet attack

    The first internet attack
    At around 8:30 p.m. on November 2, 1988, a maliciously clever program was unleashed on the Internet from a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • When WWW appeared

    When WWW appeared
    Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.
  • The first web page

    The first web page
    The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee.
  • When HTML texts appeared

    When HTML texts appeared
    The first version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. Since then, there have been many different versions of HTML. The most widely used version throughout the 2000's was HTML 4.01, which became an official standard in December 1999.
  • Facebook creation

    Facebook creation
  • Gmail creation

    Gmail creation
  • Youtube creation

    Youtube creation
  • Twitter creation

    Twitter creation
  • Instagram creation

    Instagram creation