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When the first transatlantic telegraph was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field
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Zworykin invented the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope, sorely needed for television. It seems the first computer, which used a CRT monitor, was the US military SAGE from 1950s.
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USSR launches Sputnik the very first satellite into space and, with sets off the race to link the world through global communications. US is worried that it is to spy on US.
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Bell Labs produced the first commercial modern
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Robert Taylor initiates the ARPEnet Project, the foundation for today's Internet under the Department of Defence
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1969: Oct 29, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara ad University of Utah send each other the first text message which was LO
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The physical network is constructed, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, And University of Utah.
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In 1971 ALOHAnet connected the Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network
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The first submarine fiber cable (five miles with no repeaters) was laid in the English Channel between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
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The Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP Address
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The Michael Aldrich Archive - Internet Online Shopping. Online shopping was invented and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the UK. In 1979 he connected a modified domestic television via a telephone line to a real- time multi-user transaction processing computer.
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TAT-8 fiber optic cables went into service was laid the Atlantic Ocean, from the United States to Britain. It carried the equivalent of 40,000 telephone conversation.
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In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989.
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NexCube was invented by Tim Beners Lee for invention called the World Wide Web. This was the the computer where the very first web page and website were stored
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In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. They are the ones credited with inventing Wi-Fi.
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The first few hundred web sites began in 1993 and most of them were at colleges, but long before most of them existed came Archie.
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Six Degrees. Six Degrees is widely considered to be the very first social networking site. Founded by Andrew Weinreich in May 1996, the site launched the following year and combined popular features such as profiles, friends lists and school affiliations in one service.
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Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely played adventure game. The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods. Adventure contained many D&D features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master.
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It's not around anymore, but shareyourworld.com was the first video sharing site that allowed users to upload files in various video file formats and share videos. It was started back i 1997 by Chase Norlin, who now heads the very cool video/audio search company Pixsy.
