1. The USSR
releases Sputnik
into space. The
first official Earth
satellite
Paul Baran
determines a way
to control
bombers but
resulted into
decentralized
network called
Packet Switches
First switched
network by
linking four
different nodes.
Birth of Internet.
Ray Tomlinson
created the first
program devoted
to Email.
2. Queen Elizabeth
sends out an
email.
Tim-Bernes
Lee created
the World
Wide Web.
Microsoft Enters.
19.5M Hosts. 1M
WWW sites.
71,618
Newgroups.