Celebrating 40 years of Internet :

1969

On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, transfer pointless data in the first trial of Arpanet, an experimental military network.
1972

Ray Tomlinson alot electronic mail to the network, picked @ as a mode to indicate email addresses belonging to other systems.
1973

Arpanet acquire first universal nodes, in UK and Norway.
1974

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn built-up communications method called TCP, authorizing multiple networks to be linked to one another, discovering a true Internet.
1983

Domain name system is designed. Choosing suffixes such as ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.gov’ and ‘.edu’ comes a year later.

1988

One of the first Internet virus, Morris, infected thousands of computers.
1990

Tim Berners- Lee invented the WWW (World Wide Web) while developing methods to manage computers remotely.
1993

Marc Andreessen and the colleagues at University of Illinois build Mosaic, the first Internet browser to merge graphics and content on a single page.
1994

Andreessen and his colleagues on the Mosaic team established a company to create the first commercial Internet browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers familiarize the world to Spam, promoting their green card lottery services.
1998

Google Corp. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government representatives oversight of domain name guidelines to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
1999

Napster make famous music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry.
2000

The dot-com explosion of the 1990s turned to a bust as technology companies slide.
2004

Mark Zuckerberg build Facebook at Harvard University.
2005

Launch of YouTube video-sharing website.
2007

Apple introduced iPhone, introducing millions more to wireless Internet access.

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