dipity

Created by csdkdemellier on Aug 10, 2009

Last updated: 08/11/09 at 09:36 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Aug 10, 2009 11:53 AM

• Websites
  2006

  There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online.
  http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

• Facebook
  2004

  Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook at Harvard University. Within three years, the social networking site has 30 million members.
  http://www.sean.co.uk/a/science/history_of_the_internet.shtm

• Google
  1998

  It pioneers a ranking system that uses links to assess a website's popularity. Google's simple design is soothing while existing search engines cram their pages with animated adverts.
  http://www.sean.co.uk/a/science/history_of_the_internet.shtm

• Surfing the Internet
  1992

  "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.
  http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

• First Internet Worm
  1988

  Unleashed by Robert Morris and infects about 6000 computers. Although it causes no physical damage, it clogs up the internet and loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in computer time.
  http://www.sean.co.uk/a/science/history_of_the_internet.shtm

• Registered Domain
  1985

  Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain.
  http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

• IBM/DOS
  1981

  IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
  http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

• Email
  1972

  First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
  http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

• Birth of Internet
  1969

  ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking.
  http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

• Sputnik
  1957

  USSR launches Sputnik and the start of global telecommunications.
  http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm