1. History of the Internet Time Line By Andrew Matheson

2. Soviet Union Launches Sputnik I, the world’s first man made satellite. 1957

3. In response to Sputnik, President Eisenhower forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA. Just four months after the launch of Sputnik, U.S. launches their first satellite Explorer I. 1958

4. ARPA begins its computer network ARPANET. 1966

5. ARPANET’s first network connection is made between computers at UCLA and Stanford. 1969

6. Len Kleinrockinvents electronic mail or email. 1973

7. ARPANET is shutdown after 20 years. 1989

8. Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web or WWW. 1991

9. The Internet becomes available to the public. Early 1990s

10. Millions of people around the world use Google, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Bing, Yahoo, and Twitter. 1990-Today