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ARPANet is Organized
Created to treat technology and military deficiencies. Enabled computer communication through the US. Back bone of the internet, core. Starts with a "four-node network" to gradually include universities and government institutions. -
The first ever email is sent
This email was sent from MIT from a super computer called the IBM-7094 -
Packet Computing for inter-connection is born
Created for computer inter-connection by Len Lleinrock. -
First Public demo of ARPANet by DOD and emails get popular demand
Presented at the ICC Conference featuring terminals that can access computers cross country. First internet app, Email integrated to the FTP. -
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Development
TCP/IP development provides standards for error-free data transmission (TCP) and identifying networked destinations (IP). ARPANet gets popularized and divided from the military. Military goes to Milnet. -
ARPANet switched to TCP/IP - NSF creates NSFnet
It establishes the fundamental standards that the internet still has up to date. Domain Name System is created to automate the managing of names and addresses on the network. NSFnet substitutes ARPAnet. -
DNS creation
Internet hosts go above 10k, Paul Mockapetris creates DNS the online registry for computer domain. -
Appearance of first computer worm
This worm shows the vulnerability of the internet. It infects 10 percent of connected machines, slowing them down. Cybersecurity is now a global concern. CRT is created. -
Internet grows out of control - America Online (AOL), CompuServe, and Prodigy emerge
The "Big Three" online service providers. The introduction to dial-up messaging, email, and web portals. There is 50 million networks, 4 million systems, 70 million users and the internet goes commercial. -
ARPA no longer exists
ARPANet gets disconnected it get replaced by the WWW -
World Wide Web prototype
Tim Berners develops the WWW prototype, an app layer that runs on top of the internet based on hypertext. It results in a system for accessing resources online using (web address URLs), the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML). -
World Wide Web appears in the public domain
CERN officially publishes the WWW. It's the first web browser to display images next to text, letting users easily navigate between web pages. -
Mosaic is created to later give birth to Nestcape
Marc Andeersen creates Mosaic a program that lets you navigate internet easily. Later it transforms to Netscape the first internet navigator. Internic is also created, first internet administrator center. -
Consumer web takes shape
Amazon - "first and biggest online store" (specializes in books at that time), Yahoo, and eBay - "first online bid market" launch. Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer, this creates the first browser war. Craigslist begins as an email distribution list. -
JavaScript development
Netscape develops JavaScript, a programming language that runs in browsers to display dynamic content, making interactive web pages possible. -
Blogs are created
First Blogs are created and published. -
Communications Decency Act
The US Congress passes the Act to regulate indecency and obscenity online. The act includes Section 230, which protects “interactive computer services” from being treated as the publisher of third-party content and grants immunity from civil liability if the services make a good faith effort to restrict prohibited material. No one can control the network. -
Beijing implements various restrictive laws and technologies
This is to impose digital censorship within its borders, establishing a model for other national governments to claim sovereignty over the internet and attempt to limit the flow of information. -
Mozilla project and Google foundation
Netscape releases the source code of its browser suite, creating the Mozilla. This inspires open source software creation. Later that year, Google is founded, innovating the business of search and clicks. -
Napster and Bittorrent are born
Napster (1999)- the music giant is created and bit-torrent (2001) - the online powerhouse get published. -
Wikipedia is created
The biggest online encyclopedia gets created. -
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is published
Symmetric key encryption algorithm that was created by Belgian cryptographers Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen. It replaces the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which was adopted in 1977 but had become vulnerable to attacks. -
Friendster emerges
The first ever social media app in the world is created. -
Facebook is created
A new era of social media is created on the internet. -
YouTube
The biggest online video giant is first crafted. This is the biggest video and media content app in the internet to date. -
Megaupload is created
The biggest company in archives and media transfer, download, upload is created. Their main office is in HK. Internet is now viewed as a threat by TV and Music industries because of the scope and content. -
Amazon Web Services markets IT Infrastructure and Cloud computing emerges.
Cloud computing allows for easy data storage, access, and processing, supporting the mobile web revolution under way. -
Google buys YouTube and Twitter is launched
Data centralization brings security and privacy challenges also. YouTube was about a year old when it was bought by Google. Twitter launched means a whole new competition for social media acceptance and features implementation. -
Twitter is funded
The biggest micro-blogger platform emerges. -
Apple introduces the iPhone
This phone quickly evolves into a dominant platform of the mobile web. The transition to mobile creates more access, more apps, and more data; as well as increased privacy and surveillance issues. -
Amazon creates Kindle
Kindle is the biggest book manager ever created on that time. It is part of Amazon's retail efforts. -
Millons of webpages co-exist
Up to this date there's 63 million web pages published in the WWW. -
Net Neutrality Principles
The FCC asserts these principles of an open internet, holding that internet service providers (ISPs) must offer equal access to all internet communications without favoring particular sites or services. -
Internet Population Growth
There are 1,966,000,000 active users on the internet on this date. -
Facebook Growth Surges
Facebook counts with 600 million accounts up to this date. It is now a social media giant. -
IPv6 Introduced
IPv6 is officially on trials for protocol exchange. IPv6, the most current version of Internet Protocol, supports 340 undecillion unique IP addresses. -
CIA subcontractor Edward Snowden leaks classified files
These files show how the NSA is monitoring the communications of US citizens with help from telecom firms, as well as surveilling online communications by tapping into the servers of internet companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo. The news also reveals the sharing of intercepted data across a global surveillance system. -
On the NOW!
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