Events
Creation of ARPANET,
the first Internet (DARPA)Creation of the World Wide
Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
allowed the Internet to be
available to the publicInvention of DNS
(Paul Mockapetris,
Jon Postel)First audio and visual
content is distributed
over the Internet.Launch of Facebook (Mark
Zuckerburg) begins the Era
of Social Networking40th anniversary
of the InternetObama administration opposes
the Stop Online Piracy and the
Protect Intellectual Property Acts,
which would have ISPs police
user-generated contentEdward Snowden reveals monitoring
programs placed by the NSA that
keep track of all internet activity.Launch of the search
engine Google (Larry
Page, Sergey BrinIPv6 is introduced, allowing
for further growth of IP
addresses by using 128-bit
addresses (IETF)Netscape Web Browser
is created ( James H. Clark,
Marc Andreessen)Full internet service was
introduced on mobile phones
for the first time (NTT DoCoMo)Creation of Linux (Linus Torvalds)Founding of the Internet
Society (Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn)Email is introduced
(Ray Tomlinson)Launch of Youtube
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