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Here is a bit of Internet History and Trivia.

 

In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was formed by the Department of Defense to provide a computer network, known as ARPNET that would have the capability to withstand a nuclear attack.

The Internet originated with the ARPNET project in 1972 with 40 machines and an e-mail system.
 
The original purpose of ARPNET  was to permit researchers, military personal, and scientists at defense and civilian research agencies to have the ability to communicate with each other and collaborate on projects. Once additional civilian agencies requested access to ARPNET, such as, networking companies and universities a major change began. The National Science Foundation or NSF was given the task to administer the network. The NSF linked five of the nations supercomputers together - this was essentially the birth of the Internet we know today.
 

 
 
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1973  England and Norway joined the network making it international.
 
1982  ARPNET interconnected all major educational and research networks using a common set of communications protocol (TCP/IP). 
 
1984  There were only 1000 hosts and that number grew to 100,000 by 1989 and 33,000,000 by 1998.

1989  CompuServe and MCI set up E-mail gateways opening the way for even more communications. This also allowed the proliferation of discussion groups and listserves.

1995
  • Ebay.com and Amazon.com were launched.
  • There was an estimated 100,000 websites operating which is up from the estimated 623 in 1993.
1998       
  • Google.com opens their doors with only a staff of three.
 
1999
  • Blogger.com appears on the web and was one of the first popular weblog publishing tools.
  • Craigslist.com began as San Francisco's email list of art events. Today Craigslist has become an online classified ads-listing company.
 
2ooo
  • Google.com handles over 100 million queries a day.
  • On the average 52 million adults are online.
  • There are 25.6 million web sites by year end.
 
2001       
  • Apple Computer introduces the iPod.
 
2002       
  • 65% of American children between the ages of 12 to 17 use the Internet. This percentage is up from 41% in the year 2000.
 
2003
  • Friendster.com and MySpace.com are launched. These two sites, known as social networking sites' is now in our vocabulary.
  • The one-millionth iPod was sold.
 
2004       
  • The term 'Podcasting' is the dubbed name for audio blogging.
  • How-to articles began to appear.
  • In a typical day there were 128 million U.S. adults online.
 
2005        
  • There were 79 million U.S. and 168 million worldwide Ebay.com members.
  • There are 40 million membersaccessing MySpace.com.
  • 87% of the 12 to 17 year olds access the Internet.
  • Technorati tracks 22.9 million blogs.
  • Each month on Craigslist.com 10 million members seach 6.5 million classified postings.
 
 
 
Hope you enjoyed our trivia timeline, watch for more in the future.
 
 
 
Web trivia was compiled partially from the Pew Reseach Center for
The People and The Press survey conducted in September 2005.