The Internet Timeline

Licklider formulated the earliest ideas of a global computer network in August 1962 at BBN, in a series of memos discussing the "Intergalactic Computer Network" concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today, including cloud computing.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.

The first email message content is totally forgettable but it was sent by Ray Tomlinson at ARPAnet.

Vinton Cerf and Robert Elliot Kahn designed TCP during 1973 and published it with the help of Carl Sunshine and Yogen Dalal later in 1974. When you ask who invented the Internet as we know it, the credit will most probably go back to these fellows.

Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduced DNS with the familiar suffixes of .com .org .edu .net .gov and others. This was a great contribution to the Internet, without it we would be browsing facebook by typing https://31.13.75.36, not cool.

Symbolics.com is the first domain name to be registered for Symbolics a Massachusetts computer company. Visit

Cisco launched its first routing innovation, the AGS multi -protocol router. View Source

Tim Berners-Lee of CERN introduced HTML

Tim Berners-Lee of CERN introduced the world wide web (www) and launched the the world's first website that is still alive till this moment. Visit site

ISOC was chartered to provide a corporate structure to support the Internet standards development process.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com Inc. in Seattle.

IEEE community created the 802.11 standard which is the standard that would make Wi-Fi feasible.

Internet protocol version 6 or IPv6 introduced with 128-bit addresses to allow 3.4 x 1038 unique addresses instead of the saturated 32-bit IPv4.

3G networks were introduced to allow data transmission at an acceptable speed to enable video calling and mobile internet.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded google search engine. It started in 1996 as research project in Stanford. However the first Internet search engine ever invented was called "Archie" and it was meant to index FTP archives.

Kevin Ashton introduced IoT concept as a title of a presentation made at Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1999. Linking the new idea of RFID in P&G’s supply chain. Read more

Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis founded Skype.

Mark Zuckerberg launch the facebook at Harvard University, it was first called The Facebook.View Source

First Youtube Video published, titled "Me at the zoo". View

@Jack Jack Dorsey, twitter founder, sends out the very first tweet: "just setting up my twttr." - View Tweet

The 4th generation networks was released in 2008 to support faster mobile internet allowing gaming services, HD mobile TV, video conferencing, live streaming and other technologies that required higher network speeds.

Jan Koum and Brian Acton founded whatsapp before it was acquired by Facebook in 2014 in the famous $19 billion deal.

Loon project started in 2008 aiming to provide free internet to the globe. In 2013 google began pilot experiment in New Zealand where 30 balloons were launched in the island.

5G is said to be released in 2020, but speculation says that it will not be available to public before 2024. 5G promises a speed range of 1 to 10 Gbps.

75 billion devices are expected to be connected to the internet by 2025. Read more