2.  USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) launches Sputnik  first artificial earth satellite  In response, the United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)  military

3.  US studying how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, in the event of a nuclear attack  decentralized  counter-attack

4.  The first node is connected to the internet's military ancestor, ARPANET  ARPANET was intended to be America's bomb-proof communications network at the height of the Cold War

5.  Project Gutenberg to make copyright-free works electronically available. ◦ The first is the US declaration of independence ◦ Michael Hart

6.  Bolt Beranek and Ray Tomlinson invent email ◦ used ARPANET to send messages between sites ◦ Within a year, three quarters of ARPANET traffic is email

7.  University College of London becomes one of the first international connections to ARPANET

8.  Internet newsgroups are born ◦ Rick Adams ◦ software enabling news transmission, posting and reading using internet

9.  The first internet worm is unleashed ◦ Robert Morris ◦ infects about 6000 computers

10.  Tim Berners-Lee and the team at CERN invent the World Wide Web ◦ made information easier to publish and access on the internet

11.  Marc Andreesen launches the web-browser Mosaic. ◦ HTML tags and more sophisticated image capabilities. ◦ Mosaic was the first web browser ◦ Andreesen goes on to develop the Netscape web browser

12.  Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web is renamed Yahoo!Yahoo!

13.  Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com, an online booksellerAmazon.com  Known as the “pioneer of ecommerce”

14.  eBay is launched to enable Internet users to trade with each other. eBay

15.  Google arrives. Google ◦ Google's simple design is soothing while existing search engines cram their pages with animated adverts.

16.  Shawn Fanning launches Napster.Napster ◦ The peer-to-peer software enables internet users to swap MP3 music files stored on their computers and to find each other through a central directory ◦ Record labels are furious. By July 2001, they had effectively stopped Napster.

17.  The dotcom bust. ◦ Many of these businesses failed to find a market and others realize they didn't have a business plan

18.  As broadband becomes more popular, media companies start selling music and video online. ◦ Napster re-launches as a paid music download store. ◦ It's up against iTunes

19.  What has happened since???  Give me Five examples of significant events or inventions in the advancement of the Internet or the World Wide Web since 2004. Write a paragraph for each event (complete sentences please). The paragraph should answer the following questions: ◦ What is the event? ◦ Who is responsible for the event? ◦ Why is it important? ◦ When did it take place?