The history of Internet
Panorama
1969
ARPANET - Packet switching network funded by ARPA
First four nodes introduced: UCLA, Stanford, U of Utah, UC Santa Barbara
1974
Publication of TCP/IP design by IEEE. Vint Cerf is called the father of the Internet for this invention.
1982
First Public WAN initiated in Europe
1983
The Internet is fully operational with three original networks: ARPANET, PRNET and SATNET
1984
First implementation of DNS and fist email arrives in Germany
1985
Symbolics.com is the world's first registered domain
1986
Craig Patridge develops modern email system
1987
UNNET, the largest internet providers is founded
1989
PSINet, the first commercial internet service provider
Tim Berners-Lee creates WWW and initiates HTTP development
1990
The first internet search engine 'Archie' is developed
1991
www was available for the public for the first time
1994
Netscape and Yahoo is created
1995
Amazon, Craigslist and eBay go live
1998
Google search engine officially launched
2000
The dot-com bubble bursts
2003
The blog publishing platform WordPress is launched
2004
Facebook is born
2005
YouTube and Reddit go online
2006
The twitter is live
2014
Google and browsers community enforce more Secure HTTPS
2018
First use of AI based chatbots
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