Timeline Of The Progression Of The Internet
The Internet did not just pop up in the late-90s like some people think. It started even earlier than that. Thirty years earlier to be exact. The first message sent between computers was from the UCLA Network Measurement Center to Stanford Research Institute. The message was “lo” which at the time did not stand for “lol” or “laughing out loud” as it’s known today but “log-in”, the system crashed in the middle of the test. That happened on October 1, 1969.
For the next five years, connections were added in five more universities. Then in March 1973, the first international connection was made with the University College of London in England, and the NORSAR in Norway. More connections were made and by 1976; Apple Computer was founded. That same year, Queen Elizabeth II, sent out an e-mail. In 1981, IBM announces its first Personal Computer. By 1986, there were five thousand hosts on ARPAnet/Internet and by the next year that amount had doubled to ten thousand. That same year, twenty-five million personal computers were sold in the U.S.
From there, the Internet has grown from ten thousand hosts on the Internet in 1987 to one hundred thousand two years later. It grows by leaps and bounds year after year to an estimated ninety-two million Web sites online by 2006.