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The first known WAN was created by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system. An enormous network of dedicated phone lines, telephones, and modems linked the sites together. -
Eisenhower in a meeting called after the launch of Sputnik. ARPA was formally authorized by President Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. -
Packet switching was invented independently by Paul Baran and Donald Davies in the early and mid 1960s and then developed by a series of scientists and engineers in the late 1960s and 1970s. Their approach to data communication revolutionized the way that digital information is sent along telecommunication lines.
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The first modem to be made commercially available in the United States was the Bell 103 modem, introduced in 1962 by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). -
As noted by Discovery, the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN. Creeper was actually designed as a security test to see if a self-replicating program was possible.
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Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, Los Altos, CA -
The IBM PC debuted on August 12, 1981, after a twelve-month development. Pricing started at $1,565 for a configuration with 16 KB RAM, Color Graphics Adapter, keyboard, and no disk drives. -
Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982 -
The Morris Worm was a self-replicating computer program (worm) written by Robert Tappan Morris, a student at Cornell University, and released from MIT on November 2, 1988.
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Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of a 'web of information' in 1989. It relied on 'hyperlinks' to connect documents together. -
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.
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The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 3 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level.
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The Mosiac web browser was first launched -
Yahoo is founded on Jan. 1994 -
July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington, U.S. U.S. Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. -
Microsoft debuts its first web browser called Internet Explorer which was its most popular way to access the internet. -
Ebay was founded on Sept,3 1995 -
AOL Instant Messenger was finally launched in May of 1997 (Bowman, 2017). The platform was released quietly, but quickly garnered worldwide attention
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Google was founded on September 4, 1998, Menlo Park, CA -
The iTunes media platform was first released by Apple in 2001 as a simple music player for Mac computers. Over time, iTunes developed into a sophisticated multimedia content manager, hardware synchronization manager and e-commerce platform. -
Safari was introduced in Mac OS X Panther in January 2003. It has been included with the iPhone since the first generation iPhone in 2007. At that time, Safari was the fastest browser on the Mac. Between 2007 and 2012, Apple maintained a Windows version, but abandoned it due to low market share. -
In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the Symbian 60 OS. Written by members of an international group of virus writers, 29A, it was a proof-of-concept virus written in C++ using Symbian and Nokia's own SDK. -
Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. -
Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search. -
Apple's first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and it was released on June 29, 2007 -
Instagram was launched on Oct. 6, 2010. And Pinterest launched 2 years after Instagram -
On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S. à r.l for US$8.5 billion. It was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which acquired all its technologies with the purchase.