History of the World Wide Web
Year
Event in Internet or Web History
1940s
Invention of first practical computers
1969
Internet founded as ARPANET at four sites
1974
Internet management transferred to U.S. Defense Agency
1981
BITNET founded ("Because It's Time Network")
1986
NSF links five supercomputers (NSFNET) as the "backbone"
of the Internet
1987
NSF assigns IBM, MCI, and Michigan Education Research
Information to manage the network
1988
The first known "worm" is released on the Internet
1991
Infomercials begin
1993
Clinton becomes the first President to use e mail address
1994
Mosaic and other multimedia Internet services begin