50 Years of the Internet

By Charlie Oliver

1960s

• 1969: The ARPANET – First version of Internet by American Defence Agency

• Why? To protect America from nuclear threats

• Only four small groups of computers networked for the first time

1970s

•1972: First email sent. Ray Tomlinson wrote the email program.

• @ symbol introduced for the first time

• 1978: The first SPAM email message was sent to 320 people on the ARPANET network.

1980s

• 1982: Smileys (emoticons) were introduced

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▲1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide

web

1990s

• 1994 Yahoo kicks off the first internet email website

• 1995 Amazon.com and eBay become first online shops

• 1996: Internet Explorer and Netscape compete to be top internet browser

1998:

• Charlie Oliver is born

• And so is Google

• 2001 Wikipedia is introduced

• 2004 Broadband becomes more used than dial up More than 1 million searches on Google each day

• 2008: 71% of businesses say they can’t survive one day without the internet

Today:

• There are over 100 million websites

• 75% are businesses

• One out of five people access the internet

The Future ?

Connecting through wireless will make the internet even faster

•New kinds of computers and programs will make people even more connected through the internet

And here is a brief but funny video I got from

the internet.

Enjoy!