Internet turns 40!

Internet just completed 40th year of its existence and I am sure it is here to stay moving from strength to strength.

Here is the Chronology of events in the life of Internet

1969

• On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network 1972
• Ray Tomlinson brings email to the network, choosing @ as a way to specify email addresses belonging to other systems 1973
• Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway 1974
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop communications technique called TCP, allowing multiple networks to understand one another, creating a true internet 1983
• Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ‘.com’, ‘.gov’ and ‘.edu’ comes a year later

1988

• One of the first internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers

1990

• Tim Berners- Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely

1993

• Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page

1994

• Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial web browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services

1999

• Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry

2000

• The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide

2004

• Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook at Harvard University

2005

• Launch of YouTube video-sharing site 2007
• Apple releases iPhone, introducing millions more to wireless internet access

World internet population surpasses 250 million in 1999, 500 million in 2002, 1 billion in 2006 and 1.5 billion in 2008

Just imagine how would it be if there was no Internet today?