Internet

History of Internet

  • First Computer

    First Computer

    The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage
    https://www.thoughtco.com/first-computer-charles-babbages-1221836
  • Arpanet Network

    Arpanet Network

    irst wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control
  • First Email

    First Email

    First email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971
  • First Spam Email

    First Spam Email

    The first spam email was sent by a Digital Equipment Corp marketing representative.
  • GIF

    GIF

    Led by a team of programmers at CompuServe led by Steve Wilhite. The first gif was moving clouds over a still image of an airplane that appeared to be moving
  • Archie

    Archie

    Considered the first search engine by Alan Emtage
  • WWW

    WWW

    Creator Tim Berners-Lee. The first site was about the World Wide Web project, describing the web, and how to use it.
  • First webcam

    First webcam

    First webcam was created by students from Standford University
    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20439301
  • YAHOO!

    YAHOO!

    Established by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Usage declined in late 2000's when it lost market share to Facebook and google.
  • Amazon

    Amazon

    Created by Jeff Bezos from his garage. Originally was an online marketplace for books and then expanded into a multitude of catergories.
  • Netflix

    Netflix

    Started out life as a DVD and Blu Ray rental service, sending out discs to customers by mail as a monthly subscription - eventually moved to streaming tv and movies online.
  • Wifi

    Wifi

    WiFi is a family of wireless network protocols
    https://purple.ai/blogs/history-wifi/
  • Google

    Google

    Officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page & Sergey Brin to market google search. It is one of the most used web-based search engines.
  • Napster

    Napster

    An audio streaming provider, encoded in MP3 format
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia

    Free online encyclopedia
  • My Space

    My Space

    The site was the first social network to reach a global audience, and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music
  • YouTube

    YouTube

    Created by a trio of people that met while working at PayPal, the company found success after being bought by eBay,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CvI80rvcM
  • Twiter

    Twiter

    Microblogging and social networking services which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
    https://time.com/4263227/most-popular-tweets/
  • First Iphone

    First Iphone

    Introduced by Steve Jobs at a keynote address at the Macworld conference and expo. Starting price was $499.
  • Instagram

    Instagram

    Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service founded
  • iCloud

    iCloud

    iCloud is a cloud-storage and cloud-computing service from Apple Inc.
  • Zoom

    Zoom

    Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing service you can use to virtually meet with others - either by video or audio-only or both, all while conducting live chats.