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  • The Dawn of the Internet

    January 1, 1983 The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the first component of the modern Internet. The Dawn of the Internet is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com

  • Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave

    May 26, 1995 Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since…

  • First Internet Domain Registered

    March 15, 1985 The first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company.   First Internet Domain Registered is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com

  • I Invented the Internet

    March 9, 1999 United States Vice President Al Gore gives an interview on CNN’s Late Edition in which he states, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s…

  • The Internet Goes Hollywood

    December 18, 1998 The Warner Brothers motion picture You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is released to theaters. While mostly known as a romantic comedy, the film was chock-full of technology symbolism. Primarily I find interesting that the movie’s themes of business and technology was foreshadowing larger charges to come. Starting with the…

  • Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0

    November 27, 1995 Nearly 6 months to the day after Bill Gates sent his Internet Tidal Wave memo recognizing the importance of the Internet, and only 3 months after releasing version 1.0, Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. IE 2.0 was still based on licensed code from Spyglass Mosaic, but was the…

  • Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet

    November 2, 1988 Robert Morris of Cornell University launches a self-replicating worm as part of a research project designed to determine the size of the early Internet. It was intended to count the number of computers that initiated connections when the worm was loaded onto them. However, due to a programming error, the “Morris Worm” began…

  • First Message on the Internet

    This is the log of the first message sent on the Internet. October 29, 1969 UCLA student Charley Kline attempts to transmit the text “login” to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute over the first link on the ARPANET, which was the precursor to the modern Internet. After the letters “l” and “o” are…

  • The First Internet Search Engine

    September 10, 1990 The first Internet search engine, Archie, is launched. It was used to index FTP archives to make finding files easier. However, as the technology for the World Wide Web was not invented until later in the year, it was not the first web search engine. The First Internet Search Engine is original…

  • First Building Block of the Internet

    August 30, 1969 The first Interface Message Processor (IMP) is delivered to Leonard Kleinrock’s research group at UCLA. The IMP was the device that would interconnect networks between research facilities on the developing ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. As a packet-switching device, the IMP can be considered the first generation of what we now…