timeline

By ynlmir

  • 1969: Arpanet network (the predecessor to the Internet) launched

  • 1991: World Wide Web went public; first web page; first web browser for the public; first website search protocol; first webcam

  • 1982: First emoticon typed :-)

  • 1988: First major computer worm attack

  • 1998: Google launched; ICANN (Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers) took responsibility for coordinating the Internet

  • 2001: Wikipedia launched

  • 2005: YouTube launched

  • 2016: Internet includes 75 million servers; 3.52 billion Internet users