• 1969 ARPANET commissioned by US Department of Defense
• 1973 England and Norway connected to ARPANET for research
• 1977 THEORYNET: First Emailing list
• 1979 Usenet Newsgroups set up in US
  First MUD at university of Essex
• 1982 TCP/IP established
  EUNet: Trans-european network setup
• 1984 JANET (UK) academic network set up
• 1986 NSFNET installed - first high speed backbone
• 1988 IRC (real time chat system) created
• 1989 100,000 hosts in 13 countries
• 1990 Original ARPANET closed
• 1991 First user-friendly search/menu systems created
  The internet disparate - ftp, email, usenet, irc, telnet
  and text based
• 1992 World Wide Web invented in CERN, Geneva
  1,000,000 Internet hosts
  Hyperlinks are here
• 1993 Mosaic storms web - usage growth 340,000%
  and now pictures
• 1994 Shopping malls, governments and banks online
  25th anniversary of Internet/ARPANET
  The Internet is now the WWW and email
• 1995 Netscape makes the Web the most popular Net service
  NSF backbone given back to research
• 1996 Home use of the Internet takes off

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