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US Communications
Rand Corporation proposes a new information network so that the United States could successfully communicate after a nuclear war. -
ARPANET
The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute,
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E-mail
ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email. -
Internet!
The term 'Internet' starts being used. -
Comet
Comet, the first commercial email software, is offered by the Computer Corporation of America for $40,000. -
'The Information Superhighway'
Al Gore coins the term for the Internet “The Information Superhighway.” -
WWW
The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee. -
First web server
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the Internet. -
.com .net .org etc
Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov. -
The first web browser
The Internet takes off as part of the world’s fastest growing information network
The MOSAIC Web Browser is born on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign campus.
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JAVA
The independent programming language, JAVA, is created by Jim Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more. -
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Google
There are now 3 million domain registrants on the Internet. The number of Web pages on the Internet is 300 million and growing by over 1.5 million per day.
Google is founded in Menlo Park, California. -
100 million
The Internet celebrates is 30th anniversary.
There are over 5 million domain names registered on the Internet.
There are approximately 100 million computers connected online.
Traffic over the Internet is doubling every 100 days.
The Internet economy is responsible for over 2.3 million jobs and over $507 billion in revenue. -
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522 million
Internet World Stats counted over 544 million users on the Internet. -
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Twitter
There are over 92 million websites online.
Twitter is founded in San Francisco, California.
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1.3 billion
Internet World Stats counts over 1.3 billion web surfers worldwide as of December, 2007. -
1.4 billion
Internet World Stats counts over 1.4 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2009. -
1.6 billion
Internet World Stats counts over 1.6 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2009.
The Internet celebrates its 40th anniversary. -
1.9 billion
Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2010. -
Twitter & Facebook
Twitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East revolts. -
Stop Online Piracy
Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/Protect IP Act (PIPA) and to maintain Internet freedom.
