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The History of the Internet
Internet Timeline Key Events

  2010 - iPad Released / eBooks Dominate
  2009 - Google Voice / 4G / Mobile Data Milestone
  2008 - Netflix Streaming / Cloud Computing / Tethering / App Stores
  2007 - Google Docs / Kindle / iPhone/iOS / Android
  2006 - Twitter / Web 2.0 / Standards Awareness
  2005 - TiVo / VOIP / YouTube / Google Earth
  2004 - Facebook / Firefox / Internet Speed
  2003 - Myspace / Skype / iTunes Store / 3G
  2002 - eBay and Paypal Merge / Amazon Grows
  2001 - Wikipedia / New TLDs / Radio Silence / Tech Stock Blues
  2000 - Internet Appliances / COPPA / Web Attacks
  1999 - Internet 2 / Napster / Domain Name Sales
  1998 - Google / PayPal / NetFlix / eBook Readers / Postage
  1997 - Winamp / Wi-Fi / Blog / business.com
  1996 - Internet Explorer / Java / Flash
  1995 - eBay / Amazon / Netscape / RealAudio / Domain Fees
  1994 - Yahoo / Pizza Hut / Gore / NSF Upgrades
  1993 - InterNic / Mosaic / 10 Million Users
  1992 - Tim Berners-Lee Creates the WWW
  1991 - CSNET Is Taken Out Of Service
  1990 - ARPANET Terminated / MP3 Is Born
  1989 - First Public Internet Service Provider (ISP)
  1988 - 45 Mbps (T3) Approved / IANA Created
  1986 - PERL Scripting Language is Created
  1985 - NSF Deploys The 1.544 Mbps(T1) NSFNET
  1984 - The Internet Gets Fast / DNS Created
  1983 - Internet Is Born / America Online
  1981 - NSF Creates The 56 Kbps CSNET
  1979 - Usenet Newsgroups Created / BITNET Created
  1978 - First Spam Email / PC Modem
  1976 - UUCP Copy Protocol / Royal Email
  1975 - Vinton G. Cerf "Father of the Internet"
  1973 - International ARPANET Connections/ Ethernet Is Created
  1972 - ARPANET Is Publicly Demonstrated
  1971 - First Email / First eBook / ARPANET Grows
  1969 - The 50Kbps ARPANET Is Tested With 4 Nodes
  1968 - ARPANET Is Proposed and Contracted Out
  1967 - NPL Tests The First Packet-Switching Network
  1964 - A Network That Could Withstand A Nuclear Bomb
  1961 - Packet-Switching Theory Is Created
  1960 - Ted H. Nelson Coins "hypertext" and "hypermedia"
  1957 - Sputnik Launches ARPA
  1945 - The Concept of HyperText is Conceived
  1876 - Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
  1866 - The Next Trans-Atlantic Cable Is A Success
  1858 - The First Trans-Atlantic Cable Attempt
  1837 - Samuel Morse Invents The Telegraph