1. Timeline 2009 1950 1957 1960 1964 1970 1976 1972 1982 1989 1988 1995 1997 1998 2005 2006 2007 Sputnik was launched and the first artificial earth satellite was used to transfer data to earth Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized network topology Queen Elizabeth sends her first email. Develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet, calls it the World Wide Web. The term “weblog” is coined. It’s later shortened to “blog.” YouTube.com is launched Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week. The first e-mail programme called Mailbox is installed. Intel releases the 8080 processor . uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address The word 'Internet' was used for first time A virus called the internet worm temporarily shuts down 10% of the worlds internet servers start providing dial-up Internet access. Google opens first office in California There are more then 92 million websites online
