It all began when only a few were paying attention on September 2, 1969, when 20 people gathered in Kleinrock’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable, 40 years from now.

When they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

The internet didn’t become a household word until the ’90s, though, after a British physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the web, a subset of the internet that makes it easier to link resources across disparate locations. Meanwhile, service providers like America Online connected millions of people for the first time.

That early obscurity helped the Internet blossom, free from regulatory and commercial constraints that might discourage or even prohibit experimentation. The free flow of pornography led to innovations in Internet credit card payments, online video and other technologies used in the mainstream today.

Here is a quick journey of the internet from 1961 – 2008:

1969 | On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network

1972 | Ray Tomlinson brings email to the network, choosing @ as a way to specify email addresses belonging to other systems

1973 | Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway

1974 | Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop communications technique called TCP, allowing multiple networks to understand one another, creating a true internet

1983 | Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ‘.com’, ‘.gov’ and ‘.edu’ comes a year later

1988 | One of the first internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers

1990 | Tim Berners- Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely

1993 | Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page

1994 | Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial web browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services

1998 | Google forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government delegates oversight of domain name policies to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN

1999 | Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry

2000 | The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide

2004 | Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook at Harvard University

2005 | Launch of YouTube video-sharing site

2007 | Apple releases iPhone, introducing millions more to wireless internet access.

World internet population surpasses 250 million in 1999, 500 million in 2002, 1 billion in 2006 & 1.5 billion in 2008. Happy birthday, dear internet! :D

Passion leads to Blogging and when all the passion is gone, it leads to depression and death of the blog. Many people start blogging with the hope to reach the top but there are only few who make it to the TOP with their blogging career.  When blogging, the focus needs to be on the content, visitor trending rather than on making money!

There is also lots of dilemma as to what to write about? And whenever you see something new, first thing on a bloggers mind would be “I need to blog that!” . If you are a beginner, then the first thing that you need is to let go of “I need to blog that!” factor from your mind.

Here are something’s which I personally thought would affect and kill your blog instantly.

• Blog on something that you are Good at(keeping the content unique):

There are lots of blogs… I mean millions of blogs.. the only difference b\w your blog and others is the personalized content in your blog. Are you good in social media stuff? Did you notice something that none did on a social network? Now that’s worth blogging (Search engine likes fresh content).

• Too many Ads\Affiliate marketing is a big NO NO.

It’s one of the main reasons why people don’t use a site very regularly.

People get the negative impression that the site is spam and since most of the ads (including the ads pretending to be content links) point to other pages on the same site (*.sys-con.com). On most articles it also does an overlay ad obscuring the entirety of the actual content. It’s an elaborate ad revenue and link share.  Here is a funny picture of ads on a website and why people hate them so much.

Affiliate marketing is good to earn money, but it is a slow process, many blogger want to earn money rapidly and the end result will do some serious damage to the reputation of blog. So don’t make affiliate marketing your motto. Try to give information as your first preference and selling others product as your second preference.

• Use the right social media

Promote your blog. Don’t wait for Google, Yahoo or Bing to index your site. Try joining social media sites like Facebook, twitter to promote your site for your readers and friends.

• Know your grammar, re-read before you publish

I bet, I can write about 20 articles a day BUT do you think it would all have the correct grammar and people would be able to read it easily? I think NOT. There’s a famous saying “Slow and steady wins the race”, No matter how long it takes to write an article, re-read it yourself. Show it to your friends, maybe they can help you proof read your articles before publishing it to the world.

• Customize your Blog design

Try to customize your blog design as much as possible, “First impression is always the best impression”. Many people visit the site more often just because of the web design and layout. The content that you post would be more interesting if the layout | design of the blog is easily Steerable. There are millions and millions of blog themes available on the web, but all it takes is your own personalized touch.

Well, for all you people who just started blogging,  I hope this helps! If you like this post, please subscribe to our feeds via RSS or email, or follow me on Twitter to get faster and free updates. :).