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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, ARPANET for short, was the first network to implement the use of packet switching and it paved the future for the internet we have come to know and love. It was created with the goal to be able to share information over long distances.
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Email is a method of communication between two people through messages. It has improved drastically over the years, from only being to send emails to users of the same computer, to being able to send emails to anyone in the world. This is all accredited to Ray Tomlinson, who invented email in a windowless room in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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MUDs (MultiUser Dungeons) are the earliest forms of multiplayer games. This genre includes some big titles like WOW, (World of Warcraft) RuneScape, and Second Life. These games used elements of roleplaying, PVP, and they were massively multiplayer. Players from all around the world could connect together and have fun. The first game of this genre is MUD1 which was created in 1978.
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Gary Thuerk sent messages to hundreds of ARPA users, unbeknownst to the fact that he had sent the first spam mail. The unsolicited email was sent to promote a new product which proved successful as his company made lots of sales.
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Jon Postel introduced the domains name system in 1986. It helped convert IP addresses into readable domains, making it much easier for all internet users to access different websites
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The first major internet attack, The Morris worm, was released in 1988 and it gained lots of mainstream attention. It was written by Robert Tappan Morris and is estimated to have damage costs at about $100,000 to $10,000,000.
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Believe or not, the worlds first livestream was of a coffee pot. It was first created by the scientists at the Computer laboratory in Cambridge University who wanted to monitor their coffee pot to check if it was full. The website which hosted the livestream soon became popular and people all around the world watched as a coffee pot became full.
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In 1991, the first web page was created. Why? To explain what the World Wide Web project is and to answer questions about it. it was created by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Match was founded in 1995 by Gary Kremen and Peng T. Ong, making it the world first online dating website. It paved the way for many sites that came after it like Tinder and Bumble, and it invented a new way for people to create relationships.
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The Connectix Quickcam was the first mass market webcam with the affordable price of $99. Compared to now, the video quality is horrendous but back then, it was the best that they had.
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In 1995 the world largest online retailer, Amazon, was founded by Jeff Bezos . Originally starting as an online book store, Amazon now makes billions and has made its name as one of the biggest companies in the world.
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Hotmail, created by Sabeer Bhatia, and Jack smith in 1996, was the first ever web-based mail service. It was later bought by Microsoft for $400 million dollars and was rebranded to MSN Hotmail. It was rebranded twice more, first to Windows Live Hotmail, and finally Outlook in 2012.
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Netflix, an OTT platform which provides streaming services via the internet, was founded in 1997 as a movie rental service by Reed Hastings. In 2007 it began video streaming service. Recently Netflix has reached 203.7 million subscribers and has an operating income of $1.2 billion.
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Being the most popular web-based web engine and one of the world' s largest media companies, Google drastically changed the way people searched for info back in 1998.
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Wikipedia, a free open-collaborative online encyclopedia, changed the world when it came out in 2001. It is one of the most used websites in the world and is still being used today as a source of getting fast and reliable info.
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Facebook, originally being called TheFacebook, is a website that was launched in 2004. It had originally been only open to college students like those at Harvard but now it accepts anyone from the age of 13 and up. It is one of the most popular names in social media, having as much as 2.8 billion monthly users.
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YouTube, an online video hosting website, launched in 2005. It was and still is a great source of enjoyment and provides countless hours of entertainment for the masses. It was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion and is the second most visited website.
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Founded in 2006, Twitter became a new way for people from all around the world to interact with each other though messages called "tweets". It has more than 330 million active users.
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Created by Carlos Ramirez, the Trollface became one of the most recognizable faces on the internet and became the universal emoticon for internet trolls.
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Twitch is a live streaming platform mostly focusing on video games. It is especially popular in the esports scene and is one of the most well known live streaming platforms.
