History of the Internet

timeline "History of the Internet (1969–2010)" {
    title "History of the Internet";
    unit year;
    range 1969..2011;
    calendar proleptic_gregorian;
}

lane "Technology" as tech { kind custom; order 10; }
lane "Milestones" as milestone { kind custom; order 20; }
lane "Adoption" as social { kind custom; order 30; }

span tech 1969..1983 "ARPANET Era" {};
event tech 1969 "ARPANET launched (UCLA–SRI connection)" {};
event tech 1974 "TCP/IP protocol published" {};
event tech 1983 "DNS defined; full TCP/IP migration" {};
span tech 1991..2004 "Web Era" {};
event tech 1991 "World Wide Web made public" {};
event tech 1993 "Mosaic browser released" {};
event tech 1998 "Google founded" {};

event milestone 1972 "First e-mail exchange" {};
event milestone 1983 "Internet transition complete" {};
event milestone 1991 "First public web page published" {};
event milestone 1995 "Java / JavaScript launched — dynamic web begins" {};
event milestone 2001 "Wikipedia founded" {};
event milestone 2004 "Facebook founded (Web 2.0 landmark)" {};

event social 1990 "Commercial ISPs emerge in the US" {};
event social 1994 "Commercial internet launches in Japan" {};
event social 2000 "Global users exceed 400 million" {};
event social 2007 "iPhone released — smartphone era begins" {};
event social 2010 "Global users exceed 2 billion" {};