1. By: Shannon O’Hara

2. 1969 The internet is born!

3. 1971 People communicate over a network for the first time. Email is invented! A program to send messages to people through a network.

4. 1977 Email Takes off! The internet is now reality!

5. 1983 Internet gets bigger! Name server is developed

6. 1984 Growth of the Internet Continues! Domain name server is introduced

7. 1989 The internet starts growing larger! The number of hosts breaks 100,000

8. 1991 Most important development to date! World Wide Web is released by CERN Large bodies of information is available through internet

9. 1993 Business and media start using the internet US White House & United Nations use internet

10. 1994 A new way of life begins! Banks and shopping malls arrive online. You can order pizza from the internet

11. 1996 The WWW web browser war begins between Netscape and Microsoft. New releases are made quarterly with help from internet users who are always willing to test new upcoming versions.

12. 1999 Retailers using online for sales rack up 5.3 billion. The Melissa macro virus spreads rapidly by infecting Microsoft word documents.

13. 2001 High schools in five states (Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington) are the first to get Internet access! Napster keeps getting in trouble with litigation and is eventually forced to suspend the service. it comes back later on during the year, as a subscription service

14. 2002 Hundreds of Spain-based web sites take their information offline in protest of a new law that requires all Web sites to register with the government. Having your own blog becomes popular

15. 2003 The SQL Slammer worm causes one of the largest and fastest spreading DDoS attacks ever. It took about 10 minutes to spread throughout the world and the worm took down 5 of the 13 DNS root servers. It also took tens of thousands of other servers, and impacted a multitude of systems ranging from (bank) ATM systems to air traffic control to emergency (911) systems (25 Jan).

16. 2005 The One Laptop Per Child project begins. A project to bring low cost, education-designed laptops to many children around the world for a low price ($100). this project helped start the netbook industry.One Laptop Per Child project

17. 2008 Google's crawler reaches 1 trillion pages. Google's original index had 26 million pages in 1998, and reached 1 billion in 2000