History of Internet & Web

1958 - Advanced Research Projects Agency established within the Department of Defense (Internet Pioneers)
1969 - First node to node transmission from UCLA to Stanford - also first crash (IMP Photo)
1971 - 15 nodes on Internet
1982 - ARPA establishes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)
1984 - Domain name system introduced, number of Internet hosts 1000.
1985 - The WELL, first major online community was opened
1987 - number of hosts 10,000
1989- First commercial electronic mail through Internet (MCI and Compuserve) number of hosts 100,000
1991 - World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee
1992 - number of hosts exceeds 1,000,000
1993 - Mosaic browser is introduced, becomes Netscape in 1994
August 1995 - Netscape IPO price $28, opening price $71
December 1995 - Bill Gates famous "Internet Tidal Wave" speech
1998 - DOJ files antitrust suit against Microsoft (U.S. vs. Microsoft Timeline)
1999 - AOL purchases Netscape; 2001 purchases Time Warner
Today over 190 million American adults use the Internet (over 140M are active users), over 67% of the adult population; over 1.08 billion worldwide; over 43 million Web sites. (http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/geographics/article.php/151151)