Timeline

By Camila Celis

  • The ARPANET

    The ARPANET
    Lawrence G. Roberts haves a plan for the ARPANET, an ARPA-funded computer network that becomes a reality in 1969

  • Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

    Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
    Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf collaborate to create a protocol for linking multiple networks together. This becomes later the TCP/IP.

  • PhoneNet

    PhoneNet
    The PhoneNet system and the first commercial network named Telenet are establish and connected to ARPANET.

  • The first domain

    The first domain
    In 1985, the first domain is registered, symbolics.com, a domain that belonged to a computer manufacturer.

  • Goodbye ARPANET

    Goodbye ARPANET
    ARPANET formally decommissioned.

  • Windows 95

    Windows 95
    Microsoft launches Windows 95.

  • Google

    Google
    Google is founded.

  • The first internet virus

    The first internet virus
    The first internet virus capable of copying and sending itself to a user´s address is discovered.

  • The first cat video

    The first cat video
    The first ever cat video is in the internet.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook pens to anyone with valid email adress.

  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin
    Bitcoin is first introduced by a developer using Satoshi Nakamoto as his pseudonym.

  • Gmail - Google

    Gmail - Google
    Google tells Gmail users Facebook is a trap.

  • IPv4

    IPv4
    IPv4 addresses run out.

  • New secure internet plan

    New secure internet plan
    The inventor of the World Wide Web has revealed a plan for a new secure internet.

  • The latest in internet history

    The latest in internet history
    It´s estimated that more than four billion people (close to 60% of the world´s population) was online in March 2019. Imagine how many there are actually!