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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Dwight D. Eisenhower help create the program. -
The Internet
The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961. -
Wide Area Network
Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network for computer time sharing. -
Apple
Multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, personal computers, servers, and computer software, and is a digital distributor of media content. -
IBM
IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. -
Emoticon
Professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley. -
Virus
Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. -
Worm
Robert T. Morris launched the very first computer worm on the internet – and subsequently becoming the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. -
Michelangelo Virus
Michelangelo virus was designed to infect DOS systems, more specifically the master boot record of the hard disk -
Mosiac Web Browser
The Mosisc Web Browser popularized the world wide web and the internet. Marc Andreessen was the one who invented with his team the web browser. -
Amazon
The company was founded as a result of what Jeff Bezos called his "regret minimization framework", which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time. -
Yahoo
Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. . -
EBAY
An American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a graphical web browser by Microsoft. -
Modem
Invented by Dr. Brent Townshend. -
Pioneer
Paul Baran developed the concept Distributed Adaptive Message Block Switching with the goal to provide a fault-tolerant, efficient routing method -
AOL Instant Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger was initially integrated into AOL Desktop and later also released as a stand-alone download by America Online (AOL) -
Google
Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm at first known as "BackRub" in 1996. -
Mobile Virus
The first known mobile virus, "Timofonica", originated in Spain and was identified by antivirus labs in Russia and Finland in June 2000. -
Itunes (apple)
SoundJam MP developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1998 was renamed iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. -
Safari (apple)
Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple, based on the WebKit engine. First released on desktop in 2003 with Mac OS -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate. -
YouTube
YouTube was created for people to share videos etc on it. -
Iphone (apple)
The iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007 at the price of $499 for the 4 GB model and $599 for the 8 GB model, both requiring a 2-year contract. -
Pinterest
Social media web and mobile application company. It operates a software system designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the World Wide Web -
Instagram
Instagram is a photo sharing app which allows users to assign filters to photos and share them with followers. -
Skype
Microsoft Corporation acquired skype communications for U.S 8.5 billion.
