History of the Internet

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  • ARPANET Establishes its First Connection

    ARPANET Establishes its First Connection
    ARPANET was created by the United States Department of Defense in 1969. It established its first computer-to-computer connection on October 29th of the same year.

  • The First Email is Sent

    The First Email is Sent
    The first email was sent via ARPANET. The email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself.

  • First ISP

    First ISP
    The first internet service provider was created in 1974. It was made using a commercial version of ARPANET called Telenet.

  • Apple Computer is Founded

    Apple Computer is Founded
    Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. The first Apple computer was created in the same year.

  • NSFNET is Created

    NSFNET is Created
    The NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) was created. It's purpose was to link computers to universities and research agencies.

  • The World Wide Web is Proposed to CERN

    The World Wide Web is Proposed to CERN
    Tim Berners-Lee proposed his idea of the World Wide Web to CERN in 1989. He later created the World Wide Web in 1990.

  • The First Web Browser is Created

    The First Web Browser is Created
    Mosaic was created on January 23rd, 1993. It was the first web browser and it was created by Marc Andreessen and his team.

  • Amazon is Created

    Amazon is Created
    Amazon was created on July 5th, 1994. It was founded by Jeff Bezos.

  • Yahoo is Created

    Yahoo is Created
    Yahoo was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994. It was incorporated on March 2nd, 1995

  • Java is Created

    Java is Created
    Java was started in 1991 by James Gosling and finished in 1996. Java is a computer programming language.

  • Google is Created

    Google is Created
    Google was created on September 4th, 1998. It was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

  • Facebook is Created

    Facebook is Created
    Facebook was created in February of 2004. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg when he was 19 years old.

  • YouTube is Created

    YouTube is Created
    YouTube was created on February 14th, 2005. It was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karin.

  • Internet Users as of 2008

    Internet Users as of 2008
    As of 2008, there are 1.5 billion users of the internet worldwide. That's around 1/7 of the world's population.

  • Internet Users as of 2018

    Internet Users as of 2018
    As of June 2018, there are over four billion people using the internet. That's over half of the world's population.