Internet Timeline

  • 1960

    Packet switching networks such as Merit Network was developed.
  • 1974

    The term "internet" was born after Vint Cerf and Robert Kahan published " A protocol for Packet Network Interconnection."
  • 1976

    Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events
  • 1980

    IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC.
  • 1994

    The White House launches its website www.whitehouse.gov
  • 1996

    Approximately 45 million people are using the internet and roughly 30 million of them are in North America.
  • 1998

    Google opens its first office in California
  • 2001

    Wikipedia is created
  • 2005

    Youtube.com is launched.
  • 2008

    Microsof offers to buy yahoo for 44.6 Billion Dollars