Milestones in History of Internet

The invention of internet has revolutionized the entire communication systems and computer technology than any other inventions of digital world. Internet integrated the qualities of most of its predecessor technologies like telephone, radio, television, computer etc. The popularity of internet technology boomed in the nineties after the advent of World Wide Web by Tim Berners lee. This enabled coordinating websites and provides information and resources to common users. Milestones in the history of internet are:

- Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) was formed under the US department of defense in 1957. ARPA was responsible for the development of new media technology.

- Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) came into existence in 1969. The first operational host to host ARPANET connection was made between university of California and Stanford research institute on October 25, 1969.

- In 1972 ARPANET began email communications.

- The digital communication technology was named as internet in 1973.

- The term World Wide Web was coined by Tim Berners Lee in 1990.

- Internet registration in 1992 for .com, .net, .org, .edu and .gov.

- In 1993 the first web browser was created with the name MOSAIC web browser.

- Java, the independent programming language was created by Jim Gosling in 1995.

- Yahoo! was founded in the same year, which provided web search engine, email service, etc.

- Google was founded in September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

- Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry singer.

- In 2004 Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg which opened a new era of social networking.

- In the same year Gmail, the email service of Google, was created by Paul Buchhiet.

- Video sharing website YouTube was launched in 2005.

- Social networking site Twitter was found in 2006.