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Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.
Packet switching is the transfer of small pieces of data across various networks. These data chunks or “packets” allow for faster, more efficient data transfer.

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On Oct. 29, UCLA’s Network Measurement Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. The first message is "LO," which was an attempt by student Charles Kline to "LOGIN" to the SRI computer from the university. However, the message was unable to be completed because the SRI system crashed.

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BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. The Internetworking Working Group (INWG) forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.

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The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.

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Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.

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The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. This is easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, such as 123.456.789.10.

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The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 20,000. Cisco ships its first router.

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CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.

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The first audio and video are distributed over the Internet. The phrase "surfing the Internet" is popularized.

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Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The company was later incorporated in March 1995.

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Compuserve, America Online and Prodigy begin to provide Internet access. Amazon.com, Craigslist and eBay go live. The original NSFNET backbone is decommissioned as the Internet’s transformation to a commercial enterprise is largely completed.

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The first online dating site, Match.com, launches.

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The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.

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YouTube.com launches. The social news site Reddit is also founded.

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Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, reveals that the NSA had in place a monitoring program capable of tapping the communications of thousands of people, including U.S. citizens.

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Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users, outpacing Twitter, which would go on to reach 316 million users by the middle of the same year.