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Early research and development:
- {{Timeline-event|date=1960–1964|event= RAND networking concepts developed}}
- {{Timeline-event|date=1962–1964|event= ARPA networking ideas}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1965}}|event= NPL network concepts conceived}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1966}}|event= Merit Network founded}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1967}}|event= ARPANET planning begins}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1967}}|event= Symposium on Operating Systems Principles}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1969}}|event= NPL followed by the ARPANET carry their first packets}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1970}}|event= Network Information Center (NIC)}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1971}}|event= Tymnet switched-circuit network}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1972}}|event= Merit Network's packet-switched network operational}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1972}}|event= Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1973}}|event= CYCLADES network demonstrated}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1973}}|event= PARC Universal Packet development begins}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1974}}|event= Transmission Control Program specification published}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1975}}|event= Telenet commercial packet-switched network}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1976}}|event= X.25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1978}}|event= Minitel introduced}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1979}}|event= Internet Activities Board (IAB)}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1980}}|event= USENET news using UUCP}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1980}}|event= Ethernet standard introduced}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1981}}|event= BITNET established}}
Merging the networks and creating the Internet:
Commercialization, privatization, broader access leads to the modern Internet:
Examples of Internet services:
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1989}}|event=AOL dial-up service provider, email, instant messaging, and web browser}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1990}}|event= IMDb Internet movie database}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1994}}|event= Yahoo! web directory}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1995}}|event= Amazon online retailer}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1995}}|event= eBay online auction and shopping}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1995}}|event= Craigslist classified advertisements}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1995}}|event= AltaVista search engine}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1996}}|event= Outlook (formerly Hotmail) free web-based e-mail}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1996}}|event= RankDex search engine}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}}|event= Google Search}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}}|event= Babel Fish automatic translation}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1998}}|event= Yahoo Groups (formerly Yahoo! Clubs)}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1998}}|event= PayPal Internet payment system}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1998}}|event= Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}}|event= 2ch Anonymous textboard}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}}|event= i-mode mobile internet service}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}}|event= Napster peer-to-peer file sharing}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2000}}|event= Baidu search engine}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}}|event= 2chan Anonymous imageboard}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}}|event= BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}}|event= Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= LinkedIn business networking}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= Myspace social networking site}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= Skype Internet voice calls}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= iTunes Store}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= 4chan Anonymous imageboard}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event= The Pirate Bay, torrent file host}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event= Facebook social networking site}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event= Podcast media file series}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event= Flickr image hosting}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}}|event= YouTube video sharing}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}}|event= Reddit link voting}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}}|event= Google Earth virtual globe}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2006}}|event= Twitter microblogging}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event= WikiLeaks anonymous news and information leaks}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event= Google Street View}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event= Kindle, e-reader and virtual bookshop}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event= Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event= Dropbox cloud-based file hosting}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event= Encyclopedia of Life, a collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all living species}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event= Spotify, a DRM-based music streaming service}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event= Bing search engine}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event= Google Docs, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event= Kickstarter, a threshold pledge system}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event= Bitcoin, a digital currency}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event= Instagram, photo sharing and social networking}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event= Google+, social networking}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event= Snapchat, photo sharing}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2012}}|event= Coursera, massive open online courses}}
- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2016}}|event= TikTok, video sharing and social networking}}
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