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The Idea of Internet Formed
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT formed the idea of Internet that he called the "Galactic Network". The "Galactic Network" would be able to access information in electronic form and all computers would be connected to each other through the "Galactic Network". -
DARPA Formed
After the though of the "Galactic Network", Licklider created the first computer research program named DARPA. DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. -
ARPANET
ARPANET was created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, which is where the ARPA of ARPANET comes from. It was used to test networking technologies, connecting many universities and research centers. -
First Email Sent
The first email ever sent in the world was by Ray Tomlinson to himself. -
Apple Founded
It was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. For more than 30 years, Apple was mainly a manufacturer of personal computers. In 2001, they introduced the iPod and in 2003, the iTunes Store. After the success of this, Apple was known as the leader in the consumer electronics and media sales industries and changed the company name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. Apple has an estimated value of $626 billion as of September 2012 and is larger than that of Google and Microsoft combined. -
First Spam Email
Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the Digital Equipment Corporation, blasted out his message to 393 of the 2600 people on ARPAnet. -
First Domain Name Registered
It was symbolics.com by the Symbolics Computer Corporation. It was later sold in 2009 to xf.com. Today, it serves as a historic website. -
First Picture Uploaded
The first picture ever uploaded on the internet was posted by Tim Burners Lee. the creator of World Wide Web. It was a picture of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. -
Yahoo! Founded
Stanford University electrical engineering graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web". In March 1994, it was renamed "Yahoo!" which stood for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995. -
Amazon Founded
Jeff Bezos, the founder, left his job as vice-president of a Wall Street firm and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a business plan that would eventually become amazon.com. It started off as an online bookstore named cadabra.com but later changed to amazon.com. -
Internet Explorer Founded
The Internet Explorer project was started by Thomas Reardon. It was developed by Microsoft. Starting in 1995, it was included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. -
eBay Founded
It was founded by a computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. It started off as AuctionWeb. One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. In September 2007, AuctionWeb was renamed eBay because the website originally belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group. -
Hotmail Founded
It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the first email services along with Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail). The name "Hotmail" was chosen because it included the letters HTML. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for $400 million. It became the world's largest email service in February 1999 with more than 30 million active users. -
Google Search Founded
It started as a research project by students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Today, it's the most widely used web-based search engine. -
Mozilla Firefox Founded
It started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. It has 12% - 22% of usage worldwide making it the third most used web browser. It's most successful in Indonesia (55%), Iran (46%), Germany (43%), and Poland (41%). It was originally named Phoenix, then Firebird, and finally Firefox. -
Facebook Founded
It was created by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It was initially for Harvard students but soon expanded. -
YouTube Founded
It was created by 3 former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. -
Twitter Founded
It was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. As of 2014, Twitter has more than 600 million users with more than 284 million are active users and an average of 58 million tweets a day. -
Instagram Founded
It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It was bought by Facebook in April 2012 for $1 billion in cash and stock. In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, while Facebook, only grew by 3%. The name "Instagram" came from combining "instant camera" and "telegram". As of 2014, there are over 180 million users and an average of 58 million posts a day. -
Snapchat Founded
It was created by Stanford University students Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. It was originally named Picaboo. Users can take photos and record videos known as 'Snaps", add text and drawings, and send them to friends. Users set a time limit for how long the recipient can see their Snaps. As of 2015, there's over 100 million users with over 400 million "Snaps" a day.
