History of Important Events

  • Telegraph

  • First computer

    Invented by Harvard Mark
  • Email

    Messages sent through electronics
  • Beginning of ARPANET

  • World Wide Web

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee serves first web page 1990
  • Amazon

    Created by Jeff Bezos originally for book sales and reading.
  • eBay

    Pierre Omidyar created this as an "auction web" for online marketplace sales.
  • Google

    Larry Page created Google.com which began as a research project to search the web.
  • Wikipedia

  • Friendster

    A social networking site in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
  • MySpace

    Created by MySpace Tom/Tom Anderson in 2003. It was the first Friendster's concept online.
  • FaceBook

    Mark Zickerberg created for social networking and advertising.
  • Flickr

    Users share and embed personal photographs online with users.
  • YouTube

    Chad Hurley created YouTube as an American video sharing website.
  • Twitter

    Jack Dorsey created Twitter as a news and social network service.
  • Pinterest

    Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra created Pinterest as an image sharing and advertising site.
  • Instagram

    Created by Kevin Systrom as a photo sharing app.
  • SnapChat

    Evan Spiegel created this as an image and messaging multi-media mobile application.