1957: He became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing. - Internet, Wikipedia.
September 23, 1957: Nathaniel Borenstein (born September 23, 1957)
is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internetelectronic mail. - Nathaniel Borenstein, Wikipedia.
1960s: The principles of the routing and addressing methods for traffic in the Internet reach back to their origins the 1960s when the eventual scale and popularity of the network could not be anticipated. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1960s: The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1960s: In an independent development, Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory also discovered the concept of packet switching in the early 1960s, first giving a talk on the subject in 1965, after which the teams in the new field from two sides of the Atlantic ocean first became acquainted. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1962: UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock had provided the theoretical foundations for packet networks in 1962, and later, in the 1970s, for hierarchical routing, concepts which have been the underpinning of the development towards today's Internet. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1970s
1970: Davies also built a packet switched network in the UK called the Mark I in 1970. - Internet, Wikipedia.
December, 1970: The early ARPANET ran on the Network Control Program (NCP), a standard designed and first implemented in December 1970 by a team called the Network Working Group (NWG) led by Steve Crocker. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1971: In an early sign of future growth, there were already fifteen sites connected to the young ARPANET by the end of 1971. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1973: To respond to the network's rapid growth as more and more locations connected, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the now widely used TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. - Internet, Wikipedia.
December, 1974: Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974 with the publication of RFC 675, the first full specification of TCP that was written by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, then at Stanford University. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1975: He was project director of the European project based in Paris to bring the Internet to Europe from 1975 to 1976. - Andrew Karney, Wikipedia.
1980s
1980s: This network was eventually interconnected with the others in the 1980s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. - Internet, Wikipedia.
September 19, 1982: [citation needed] Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman in a message on 19 September 1982. - Emoticon, Wikipedia.
January 1, 1983: The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols. - Internet, Wikipedia.
November 18, 1983: The Danish UNIX User Group was founded on November 18, 1983 with the purpose of providing Internet access to the Danish academic community and the whole of Denmark. - Danish UNIX User Group, Wikipedia.
1988: The opening of the network to commercial interests began in 1988. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1989: The US Federal Networking Council approved the interconnection of the NSFNET to the commercial MCI Mail system in that year and the link was made in the summer of 1989. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1990s: Backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1990s: During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100 percent per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997. - Internet, Wikipedia.
1990s: Although the basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost two decades, the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. - Internet, Wikipedia.
August 6, 1991: CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. - Internet, Wikipedia.
November, 1993: The camera was connected to the Internet in November 1993 by
Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson. - Trojan Room coffee pot, Wikipedia.
1996: By 1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web. - Internet, Wikipedia.
September, 1996: The Internet was
introduced in the Seychelles by Cables and Wireless in September
1996 and as of 2000 there are approximately 2000 Internet
subscribers in the islands. - Telecommunications in Seychelles, Wikipedia.
November 1, 1996: The Enquirer initiated daily publication of a free Internet edition containing most of the local content produced by its reporters, photographers, and columnists. - The Cincinnati Enquirer, Wikipedia.
October 15, 1997: "That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll
around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her
house. You can amscray whenever you want without being
rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species'
diversity." - Internet, Wikiquote.
1998: Weld was one
of the seven L0pht members who testified before a Senate committee in 1998 that they
could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes. - Chris Wysopal, Wikipedia.
1999: It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisherJim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. - Baen Free Library, Wikipedia.
2002: Washer became well known when a video clip of him
preaching what has been called a fire and brimstone message at a
youth conference in 2002 surfaced on the internet. - Paul Washer, Wikipedia.
September, 2002: Governor Davis signed bills to ensure age verification was obtained for cigarettes and other tobacco products sold over the Internet or through the mail, ensured that all state taxes are being fully paid on tobacco purchases, and increased the penalty for possessing or purchasing untaxed cigarettes. - Gray Davis, Wikipedia.
October 15, 2002: Episodes first appeared on the Internet at Atom Films:
Soccamatic for free viewing 15 October 2002, and the
entire series for paid subscribers 21 October 2002-July, 2003. - Cracking Contraptions, Wikipedia.
2003: Cyberslacking can become a serious drain on corporate resources; the average UK employee spent 57 minutes a day surfing the Web while at work, according to a 2003 study by Peninsula Business Services. - Internet, Wikipedia.
2004: The presidential campaign of Howard Dean in 2004 in the United States was notable for its success in soliciting donation via the Internet. - Internet, Wikipedia.
October 8, 2004: "I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have
a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period." - Internet, Wikiquote.
February 15, 2005: YouTube was founded on 15 February 2005 and is now the leading website for free streaming video with a vast number of users. - Internet, Wikipedia.
August 11, 2005: "They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for
the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be
a fascist state." - Internet, Wikiquote.
September 10, 2005: Following a year-long romance and engagement, Jodie married internetentrepreneur Aidan
Butler on 10 September 2005 at St. - Jodie Kidd, Wikipedia.
September, 2005: The Sedition Act was first used on
individuals when two men were charged for making seditious and inflammatory racist comments on the Internet. - Sedition Act (Singapore), Wikipedia.
November, 2005: The United
States government has won its fight to keep its supervisory
authority over the internet through the ICANN, despite opposition from many nations. - November 2005, Wikipedia.
December 20, 2005: On 20
December 2005Reporters Without Borders
reported that Morocco has added Anonymizer.com to its Internetblacklist, days after the
association recommended the service to Moroccans and Sahrawis
wishing to access the banned Sahrawi sites. - Human rights in Western Sahara, Wikipedia.
January 24, 2006: Inspired by John Twomey's 1974 performance on the
Johnny Carson Show, Wilson's hands (and only his hands) first
appeared in public on the Internet via Google Video on
January 24, 2006. - Manualism (hand music), Wikipedia.
March, 2007: "This is a little known fact technological about the Internet,
but the Internet is actually made of words and enthusiasm." - Internet, Wikiquote.
2007: Guess Who
gained popularity as a solo artist in 2007 when he leaked three
tracks he had recorded for his solo album on the Internet. - Guess Who (rapper), Wikipedia.
September 17, 2007: The entire album was leaked to the Internet on September 17, 2007. - Shadows of the Sun, Wikipedia.
September 28, 2007: Public Burmese Internet access is cut, silencing what had become an international source of information and images about the events. - September 2007, Wikipedia.
October 14, 2007: Burma restores some Internet access but continues
to deny access to foreign news services such as the BBC and CNN, blogs and dissident sites. - October 2007, Wikipedia.
November, 2007: After the site first appeared in early November 2007, some
Harry Potter fans on the internet initially speculated that the site
might be part of an elaborate viral marketing campaign for an
official continuation or spinoff of Harry Potter, one
either written or at least approved by Rowling herself. - James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing, Wikipedia.
November, 2007: He gained
some popularity on the Internet after he conducted an interview with
the reclusive David Rockefeller in November
2007. - Benjamin Fulford, Wikipedia.
December 6, 2007: Ward was indicted by a grand jury on two
federal counts of distributing child pornography via the internet in December
2004. - Bernie Ward, Wikipedia.
January 23, 2009: The number of unique Internet users reached one billion in December
2008. - January 2009, Wikipedia.
2009: Computer tan hoax refers to a trick website set
up by skin cancercharitySkcin in 2009 to spread awareness about
skin cancer through the Internet. - Computer tan hoax, Wikipedia.
June 30, 2009: The estimated population of Internet users is 1.67 billion as of June 30, 2009. - Internet, Wikipedia.
September 3, 2009: As a special gift for her fans, she broadcasted the cover photo shoot live via internet on September 3, 2009 as well as the video shoot for her first single on September 19, 2009. - Ednita Nazario, Wikipedia.
October 18, 2009: A Rwandan doctor working
in a French hospital is
suspended after a nurse locates an InternetInterpol arrest warrant, accusing him of a
1994 "genocide, war crimes". - October 2009, Wikipedia.
2011: However, the explosive growth of the Internet has led to IPv4 address exhaustion which is estimated to enter its final stage in approximately 2011. - Internet, Wikipedia.
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