Infografik: Die Geschichte des Internets von 1969 bis 2012

AVG hat eine spannende Infografik zur mittlerweile 43-jährigen Geschichte des Internets zusammengestellt. Es ist spanend zu sehen, dass es in den Anfängen eher recht langsam vorwärts ging, aber so ab dem Jahr 1998 der immer noch andauernde Boom dann so richtig los.

*klick für volle Größe*

Hier noch mal alle Fakten:

1969

• A connection is made between The University of California Los Angeles and The Stanford Research Institute – Arpanet is born; created by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects (Darpa)

1971

• The first virus – Creeper – created

1973

• Arpanet users 35

1976

• Apple founded

1978

• 400 Arpanet users receive the first ever spam email inviting them to a product demo
• US National Science Foundation creates a non-military network for American universities

1979

• Arpanet user Kevin Mackenzie uses the emoticon -)

1980

• Apple IPO – market cap £1.7bn

1981

• Arpanet and all network users
• IBM launches the personal computer

1982

• The Elk Cloner virus created
• Scottt Fahlman, computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University – adds a colon to the first online emoticon 🙂

1986

• The US National Science Foundation created a network to link existing university supercomputer networks
• Microsoft IPO – market cap $770m

1987

• Stoned virus created

1988

• The first worm – “Morris” – created

1990

• “Archie” the first search engine created by a student
• Arpanet decomissioned

1991

• Tim Lee at CERN introduces the World Wide Web

1992

• Michelangelo virus created

1993

• Mosaic web browser launched

1994

• Webcrawler, go.com and Lycos search engines launched
• Yahoo! founded

1995

• Microsoft launches Internet Explorer.  Amazon and eBay founded
• 18,957 websites are live

1997

• AOL launches instant messenger

1998

• Worldwide internet users breaks the 100m figure
• Google founded

1999

• Worldwide fears of computer crashes over Y2K or Millennium Bug
• Zappos – the first online only shop – is launched.  Napster founded
• Happy99 – first email virus created

2000

• iloveyou virus – 50 million users report being infected within 10 days

2001

• Napster ordered to stop users sharing copyrighted music
• Wikipedia launches. Apple launches the ipod.
• CodeRed – the first virus to spread without human interaction

2002

• Friendster founded. Gawker founded

2003

• Apple launches iTunes and Safari browser. Myspace, Linkedin, Skype and WordPress launched

2004

• Google’s IPO – market cap £23bn. Facebook, Flickr and Vimeo launch. Mozilla launches Firefox browser

2005

• Worldwide internet users breaks the 1 BILLION
• Reddit and YouTube launch
• Cabir – the first mobile virus created

2006

• Twitter launched. Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn

2007

• Apple launches iPhone. Tumblr launched. BBC launches the iPlayer

2008

• Facebook becomes the world’s most popular social network
• Google launched Chrome. Spotify launched. Apple launched App Store

2010

• Apple launches iPad. Instagram and Pinterest launched
• Stuxnet virus targets industrial processes – and appears to target nuclear operations in Iran

2011

• Death of Steve Jobs. Google+ launched. Microsoft buys Skype

2012

• Worldwide internet users breaks 2.4 BILLION