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The Difference Engine
Charles Babage made a proposal for a progammable computer, the british government was so interested that they gave him £1700 to get started. -
The first computer is created
The first computer was called the EINAC was created by j. Prester Eckert, and John Mauchly -
The installation of nodes
UCLA’s Network Measurement Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. These nodes were used to send messages from long distances to each other, almost like email. -
Arpanet goes online
Arpanet was funded by the United states, it was the first "internet" created. The net was used by 4 major U.S. universities to connect to one another. -
Email is created
Email was created by Ray thompsonwho used the @ symbol to difrentiate from the senders name and the network name. -
First mobile phone
The first mobile phone was created by Martin cooper. He worked for motorola and the first commercial version was available in 1984 -
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TCP/IP is created
This important internet protocall was made by two DARPA employeees. It was later adopted as the standard in 1984. -
IBM 5150
This computer is hailed as oe of the first personal computer. It came with a monitor and a keyboard, it was an immediate success and sold for about $1000 at the time -
Morris internet worm distributed through the internet
The morris worm was the first internet virus that was spread through the internet, it caused 100k - 10 million in damages. -
World.std.com
The first provider of dial up internet. They are still active today and provide dial up access to customers. -
World Wide Web is put in the public domain
Cern decides to open up the web to public doamins, it grew to a size they never expected. -
Yahoo!
Previously known as Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web in 1994 that website was changed to the yahoo we all know today. its founders are Jerry Yang and David Filo. -
Google .com is registered as a domain
Google was created as a project by two stanford university students who thought that they had a better idea of how search engines should look for results. -
Napster is created
The notosious music sharing site napster, is created by a college student named Shawn Fanning -
Myspace
Myspace was the most popular social media site of its time, some would even argue to call it the granddaddy of all social media. it was created by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolf -
Youtube
Youtube is the most popular video hosting site in the world, today many people are earning millions of dollars just because they make videos. It was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim -
Tumblr
Tumblr, the popular blogging site is created by David Karp -
Twitter launches
The popular social media site created by jack dorsey goes live. The first tweet was "just setting up my twttr". -
America online
AOL is a large network that was the way to connect to the internet of yesteryear. It was the largest dialup internet provider. -
Wi-Fi
Wifi was created through a collaboration between the NCR corporation and at&t which made the 8o2.11 standards.
