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In this present age, the Internet is considered the most important means of global communications, and it has truly created a platform for a borderless world. People from all walks of life are making use of the Internet to perform a wide variety of activities, both work-related and recreational. The Internet has become so accessible and efficient today because of a lot of developments that took place in the past. Here is a timeline to give you a better understanding of the history of the Internet.

1958 – President Eisenhower requested funding for the establishment of the Advanced Research Project Agency ARPA). His request was approved.
1962 – J.C. R. Licklider and W.Clark wrote a paper on the concept of the Internet. The paper was titled “On-Line Man Computer Communications”.
1965 – The first network experiment took place at the MIT Lincoln Lab, and it had two computers communicating with each other. The experiment was conducted by Larry Roberts.
1966 – The ARPA project started with Larry Roberts as the chief scientist.
1969 – The ARPA was introduced online as a connection between 4 major universities in the US.
1972 – Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist in Cambridge Massachusetts, introduced the electronic mail. The symbol @ was used in the email address to separate the name of the user and the name of the network.
1973 – The design of the Transmission Control Panel/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was developed, and it would become the standard for Internet communication in 1983.
1976 – President candidate Jimmy Carter used the email to make plans for his campaign.
1981 – Microsoft developed Disk Operating System (DOS).
1982 – The term “Internet” was introduced.
1984 – The Domain Name System (DNS) was set up, and domain names were given extensions like .com, .org, and .edu.
1985 – America Online, which was then known as Quantum Computer Services, made its debut.
1988 – The Internet Worm virus temporarily disabled 10% of the Internet servers around the world.
1989 – The World (world.std.com) became the first dial-up Internet access provider. Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web to enable users to use hyperlinks to connect to documents in websites.
1990 – Peter Deutsch of Montreal’s McGill University developed an FTP site archive called Archie to index the Internet. The Archie was regarded as the first search engine.
1991 – The Gopher point-and-click navigation was designed at the University of Minnesota.
1994 – The official website of the White House, www.whitehouse.gov, was launched. Commercial websites were set up and marketing campaigns were carried out with the use of email, leading to the coining of the term spamming. Netscape Communications was established by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, who also started the Navigator browser.
1995 – America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy became providers of dial-up Internet access. The Java Internet programming language was released by Sun Microsystems. Windows 95 was introduced.
1996 – The Internet was used by around 45 million people, of which 30 million were Americans. There were personal computers in 43.2 million households in the US, and 14 million of these had Internet access.
1997 – The term weblog was introduced, and it was later changed to blog.
1998 – The first office of search engine giant Google was set up in California.
1999 – Shawn Fanning, a college student, developed a computer application called Napster to allow music to be swapped on the Internet. As Internet shopping became more popular, the term E-Commerce was frequently used. MySpace.com was started.
2000 – Many Internet users were hit by viruses, such as “Stages” and “Love Bug”, and many companies were temporarily forced to shut down their networks. Investment capital on the Internet dried up, and many dotcoms had to be closed down. Time Warner was bought by America Online for $16 billion, resulting in the biggest merger ever.
2001 – The number of email messages sent daily had increased to 9.8 billion. Wikipedia was launched.
2002 – About 544.2 million people around the world were using the Internet, with 164.14 million in the US alone.
2003 – The Apple iTunes Music Store was launched and it offered downloads of songs at the price of 99 cents each. 50% of all emails sent were unsolicited emails, and President Bush signed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to reduce the number of unsolicited emails received by Internet users.
2004 – The amount of money spent online had reached $117 billion, which was a 23% increase from the previous year.
2005 – YouTube was launched.
2006 – The number of websites on the Internet had risen to 92 million.
2008 – In a bid to compete with Google, Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo! for a price of $44.6 billion.
Throughout the years, the Internet has grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry, and online spending is constantly on the rise. As such, many businesses have set up websites to try to gain a global market, and consumers are responding by making more and more purchases online. This is one of the main reasons why the Internet will continue to grow in importance and become a big part of our lives.