Internet 1

Internet History timeline

  • ARPANET Created

    ARPANET Created
    ARPANET was the very first internet connection ever created. It was created by people at the Universities of UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, and The University of Utah.
  • Period: to

    1960 through 2010

  • Email introduced

    Email introduced
    Ray Tomlinson was the first person to introduce electronic mail called an Email. He was the first person to put the "@" button to send emails.
  • Microsoft is Created

    Microsoft is Created
    Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft. The company was made to sell basic interpreters for the Altair 8800.Gained more popularity over time and introduced Microsoft Windows.
  • Apple Founded

    Apple Founded
    Apple was founded April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs built the Apple computer in 1976 and later incorporated the company January 3, 1977.
  • NSFNET

    NSFNET
    The National Science Foundation Network or NSF, started in 1985. Its purpose was to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. The purpose was for information sharing between scientists in Universities and Institutes around the world.
  • Google Created

    Google Created
    Google was created on September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park, California. Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded the company. Google would later win awards and become the most used search engine besides Yahoo.
  • Facebook founded

    Facebook founded
    Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. Facebook would later become one of the biggest social media websites in the world.
  • Twitter invented

    Twitter invented
    Twitter is an online social media website that allows people to send 140 character messages to called tweets to people that followed them.
  • YouTube Created

    YouTube Created
    YouTube is an online video service that lets anyone post videos on the internet. The Founders, Chad Hurley Steve Chen and jawed Karim, were former paypal employees when they created it and a year later in 2006, Google bought Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars