Evolution of Internet
- 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first manmade satellite.
- 1958: Establishment of Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) by US department of Defense. (DoD).
- 1966: ARPA called for several research institutions to come together to build computer network.
- 1969: ARPANET launched the the first computer network with 4 computers.
- 1977: The network grew to 111 computers.
- 1983: The military sector ARPANET left the network to become MILNET.
- 1985-86: 5 supercomputers centers formed a network called NSFNet (National Science Foundation Network). Many computer network shifted from ARPANET to NSFNet. This system of interconnected computer became known as the internet.
- 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW.
- 1991: The WWW became available to the public.
- 2014: 1 billion websites on the internet.
