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Batch Processing Created
One task at a time, The idea of time sharing -
Arpanet- the first network created
Computers at UCLA and Stanford connect for the first time, first two hosts, 4 hosts -
Arpanet breaks out East
Host computers are installed in Harvard, MIT, and BBN
In Hawaii work has started on Alohanet, Norm Abramson
13 Hosts -
First Email
Ray Tomlinson at BBN makes the first email at Arpanet, first email was telling his colleagues how to use it. 23 hosts -
The Internetwork
Proposal to link up Arpa like networks, which are starting to pop up, the first use of the word internet is recorded -
Building the Hardware
Users are able to get online from home, Pc and Apple 11 are created and sold -
Spam
600 spam emails are sent to californian Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
Enquire
uses hypertexts to allow Cern scientists to track people, projects and software -
Dot Com
Daomain names such as the .com, .org, .edu are used -
IRC
Internet realay chat is born by Jarkko Oikarinen at U of Oulu in Finland, allows people to chat, share files, and form communities -
IMBD
Internet movie data base is created by Hp engineer col needham -
Netscape Rise and Fall
Marc Andreessen Created netscape it burned brightley and fast, absorbed by aol and microsoft in the 2000's -
Blogging
Justin Hall was one of the first bloggers, the word weblog is created to describe these sites and eventually is shortened to blog in the 90's -
The Collapse
Netscape and IPO vanish -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is born, launches in January and by August, it had over 8000 articles, now it has over 3 million! -
FaCeBoOk
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and relesased it in 2006, to everyone 13 and over, became one of the worlds largest social networking sites -
Youtube
Youtube makes watching videos on the web faster and more efficient, first video was Me at the Zoo