History of Internet

History of the Internet

1969 :          The US Department of Defense started the first network amongmajor research centres in the                         US.

1971 :          Major connections or nodes were established. E-mail was introduced.

1973 :          Defense Department started developing various forms of file transfer.

1984 :          Domain Name Service (DNS) was introduced.

1986 :         The US National Service Foundation created Internet-based telephone lines.

1987 :         The number of hosts (computers on the Internet) reached 10,000.

1988 :         The number of hosts on the Internet crossed over 60,000.

1989 :         Over 100,000 hosts on the Internet were registered.

1991 :          The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by CERN inSwitzerland.
                   (Conseil European pour la Recherché Nuclearire)

1992 :          One million hosts were found on the Internet.

1995 :          There were a total of 6.6 million hosts or computers on the Internet.

July 1997 :   1.3 million domain names were registered.

Dec. 1997 :  22 million servers, 40 million users on the WWW.

2000 :          110 million users and 72 million domain names.

2003 :          802.2 million users and 233 hosts.