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Internet was invented on January 1, 1983 by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf.

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Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology.

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Unix was the operating system whose design heavily influenced that of Linux.

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An Arpanet network was established between Harvard, MIT, and BBN.

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Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.

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One of the most impressive developments of 1971 was the start of Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg. A site in which many eBooks and articles are found.

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France began its own Arpanet-like project in 1972, called Cyclades,

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Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection in 1973, with the University College of London.

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1974 was a breakthrough year. A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called “inter-network”, which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol.

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With the popularity of emailing, the first modern email program was developed by John Vittal.

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977 was a big year for the development of the Internet as we know it today. It’s the year the first PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayed and Dale Heatherington.

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The first bulletin board system (BBS) was developed during a blizzard in Chicago in 1978.

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1978 is also the year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.

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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.

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1979 also ushered into the scene: Usenet, created by two graduate students. Usenet was an internet-based discussion system, allowing people from around the globe to converse about the same topics by posting public messages categorized by newsgroups.

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The European Organization for Nuclear Research launched Enquire (written by Tim Berners-Lee), a hypertext program that allowed scientists at the particle physics lab to keep track of people, software, and projects using hypertext.

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In 1982 Scott Fahlman invented the modern smile emoticon.

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January 1, 1983 was the deadline for Arpanet computers to switch over to the TCP/IP protocols developed by Vinton Cerf. A few hundred computers were affected by the switch. The name server was also developed in 1983.

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The domain name system was created in 1984 along with the first Domain Name Servers (DNS).

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1985 brought the development of The WELL (short for Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), one of the oldest virtual communities still in operation. It was developed by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in February of 1985.

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The so-called Protocol wars began in 1986. European countries at that time were pursuing the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), while the United States was using the Internet/Arpanet protocol

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By 1987, there were nearly 30,000 hosts on the Internet.

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In 1988, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first deployed, paving the way for real-time chat and the instant messaging programs we use today.

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One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988. Referred to as “The Morris Worm”, it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet.

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When Apple pulled out of the AppleLink program in 1989, the project was renamed and America Online was born. AOL, still in existence today, later on made the Internet popular amongst the average internet users.

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1989 also brought about the proposal for the World Wide Web written by Tim Berners-Lee. It was originally published in the March issue of MacWorld, and then redistributed in May 1990.

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1990 also brought about the first commercial dial-up Internet provider, The World.

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1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

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Also in the same year, the first search protocol that examined file contents instead of just file names was launched, called Gopher.

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The MP3 file format was accepted as a standard in 1991. MP3 files, being highly compressed, later become a popular file format to share songs and entire albums via the internet.

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One of the more interesting developments of this era, though, was the first webcam. It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.

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The first widely downloaded Internet browser, Mosaic, was released in 1993. While Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser, it is considered the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies.

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In 1993, both the White House and the United Nations came online, marking the beginning of the .gov and .org domain names.

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Mosaic’s first big competitor, Netscape Navigator, was released in 1994.

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1995 is often considered the first year the web became commercialized. While there were commercial enterprises online prior to ’95, there were a few key developments that happened that year.

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Major developments this year included the launch of Geicities,
the Catican also went online for the first time. Next Java and JavaScript were launched by its creator, Brendan Eich, and deployed as part of the Netscape Navigator browser.

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In 1996, HoTMaiL the first webmail service, was launched.

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While the first blogs had been around for a few years in one form or another, 1997 was the first year the term "Weblog” was used.

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In 1998, the first major news story to be broken online was the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal, which was posted on The Drudge Report.

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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.

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In 1998 as well, Napster launched, opening up the gates to mainstream file-sharing of audio files over the internet.

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1999 is the year when one of the more interesting projects ever brought online: the SETI!home project, launched. The project has created the equivalent of a giant supercomputer by harnessing the computing power of more than 3 million computers worldwide.

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2000 was the year of the dotcom collapse, resulting in huge losses for legions of investors.

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With the dotcom collapse still going strong, Wikipedia launched in 2001, one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media.

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In 2003: Skype is released to the public, giving a user-friendly interface to Voice over IP calling.

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Also in 2003, MySpace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social network at one time.

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Another major advance in 2003 was the signing of the Controlling the Assault of Marketing Act of 2003, better known as the CAN-SPAM Act.

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Though coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, the term “Web 2.0”, referring to websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that are highly interactive and user-driven became popular around 2004. During the first Web 2.0 conference.

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The term “social media”, believed to be first used by Chris Sharpley, was coined in the same year that “Web 2.0” became a mainstream concept.

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Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called “The Facebook”.

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YouTube launched in 2005, bringing free online video hosting and sharing to the masses.

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Twitter launched in 2006. It was originally going to be called "twittr".

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Hulu was first launched in 2007, a joint venture between ABC, NBC, and Fox to make popular TV shows available to watch online.

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The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design.

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The first “Internet election” took place in 2008 with the U.S. Presidential election. It was the first year that national candidates took full advantage of all the Internet had to offer.

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2009 brought about one of the biggest changes to come to the Internet in a long time when the U.S. relaxed it's control over ICANN, the official naming body of the Internet.