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The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1450. It was used to quickly and cheaply print books by pressing inked letters onto paper. The invention of the printing press made books more accessible which helped to spread knowledge much quicker -
The first mechanical computer began to be designed by Charles Babbage in 1822. This took several years to design the first automatic computing machine. -
The first electronic computer was invented called the Atanasoff Berry Computer. -
In 1964, the first desktop computer was invented by IBM with the intention of helping academic and scientific needs. -
In 1969, Arpanet was invented that created the first connection between computers in history. This allowed different computers to share information with eachother from distances and was used for military and educational purposes. https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/ARPANET_final.pdf -
Email was developed first in 1971 by somebody by the name of Ray Tomlinson. This also led to the creation of the "@" symbol being used for email names. -
In 1978 the use of spam mail was created when 600 unsolicited email messages were sent out to Arpanet users. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/its-40-years-since-the-first-spam-email-was-sent-here-are-6-things-you-didnt/ -
The first videogame via the internet was created from Arpanet called MUD1. This paved the way for games like Minecraft, Counterstrike exc. -
The first online marketplace was created where the first purchase via the internet occured. -
In 1989, the world wide web was introduced to the world from a british scientist names Tim Berners Lee. This made it so people with access to a computer could obtain information from online sources. -
The first website ever created was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html in 1991 which was created by the company CERN. -
In 1992 the first smartphone was invented which allowed people to access the internet from the palm of their hands. -
Jeff bezos invented Amazon in July of 1994 from his garage which became the worlds largest online retailer. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266595/leading-retailers-worldwide-based-on-revenue/ -
In 1997, Wifi was invented by Vic Hayes and from an agency called IEEE. It later became titled wifi in 2002 where nearly everybody had Wifi in their homes due to the abundance of smart phones. -
The invention of Google was created in 1998 which is currently the biggest internet browsing company. This was important because their initial goal was the make the results of their content most accurate among other internet browsing companies. -
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg invented a social media platform called TheFacebook which allowed users to communicate with family and friends from a distance and share photos/ideas for others to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNzacaxT6s -
In 2005 the creation of Youtube occurred and was the first movie/video streaming service created that was displayed on the internet. -
In 2007, Steve Jobs and Apple invented the IPhone which revolutionized the way we accessed the internet from a cellular device. -
In 2022 Chatgpt, an artificial intelligence website was created that allows users to get humanlike answers to questions they have. -
Today the internet is used for everything. From communication to shopping to obtaining information, the world relies on the internet to go about their day.