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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite it was named Sputnik. Causing the U.S. president to create the ARPA agency to stay ahead in technology.
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ARPANET went live and the first communications between Leonard Kleinrock’s research center and Douglass Engelbarts’s center.
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E-mail was invented by a man named Ray Tomlinson. He lived and worked Cambridge Mass.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol was designed to help communication over the web.
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First use of the term “Internet” is used.
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E-mail becomes the standard for communicating from computer to computer over the internet.
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Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate use E-mail for campaign and queen Elizabeth is the first leader to send e-mail.
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DNS is connected with network addresses for extensions such as .com .org .edu or .gov
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A virus shuts down 10% of the world’s internet services it was called the internet worm.
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The ARPANET retired and transferred to the NSFNET.
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Peter Deutsch he created Archie an archive of FTP sites this is the first time any one tried to index the internet.
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College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet.
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Marc Anderson developed the Mosaic for supercomputing it becomes the dominant navigating system.
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A new website is launched by the white house it is called www.whitehouse.gov. Mass marketing campaigns are launched via email. This introduces a new term of spamming.
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CompuServe, America Online, and Prodigy start providing dial-up Internet access. Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java. The Vatican launches its own website.
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About 44% of U.S. houses have a computer.
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Internet traffic records are broken 46 million hits in one day.
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Google starts up and opens its first office in California.
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It is recorded that internet users illegally download 2.6 billion music files.
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Internet worm called MyDoom infected 1 in 12 emails.
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YouTube is launched.
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96 million websites are live.
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Legal music download tripled to 6.7 million downloads a week.
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To challenge Google's dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
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In January congress tries to pass a bill to stop illegal downloading but they are afraid it will give media companies too much power.
