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ERA 1101 was one of the first commercially distributed computers. It stored one million bits.
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Tom Kilburn created a prototype of a transistorized computer.
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DEC was first made to help scientists create simulations. It was made by Ken and Stan Olsen and Harlan Anderson.
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Unix was invented in 1969 as an operating system that influenced Linux and FreeBSD.
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The NPL computer network was designed by the National Physics Laboratory in England. It was the first pilot operational system.
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ARPANET was created in Standford University and UCLA to connect military computers.
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The ARPANET network connected MIT, Harvard, and BBN and created the interface message processor.
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France creates a similar ARPANET network to that of the United States.
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The first trans-Atlantic ARPANET network connected with the University of London. Email was three fourths of the activity.
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A proposal was made to have no central control on the ARPANET network, or inter-network. A transmission control protocal was established.
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John Vittal from University of Southern California invented the first modern email and established the Reply and Forward functions.
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Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington created the first PC Modem to give us something similar to what we use today.
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During a Chicago blizzard, the bulletin board system was created.
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The first unsolicited commercial mail was sent by Gary Thuerk to 600 ARPANET users.
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The first multi user dungeon was established. They were originally all text based virtual worlds that involved chat.
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Enquire was launched by CERN which was a hypertext program to keep record of people, projects, and software. It used hyperlinks to do this.
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January 1st, 1983 was the day that the Arpanet computers all swapped to TCP/IP protocols.
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The WELL was the first virtual communities that is still being used today. Stewart BRand and Larry Brilliant created it.
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The first dial-up internet provider was introduced commercially. Arpanet died this year as well.
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The very first web page, which explained what the internet was. was created.
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Java and JavaScript was introduced to the world.
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The first commercial web-based mail was introduced online.
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Wikipedia was launched which greatly influenced today's social media.
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These robots were designed to help create maps and search a dangerous area to avoid human injury.
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MySpace launched in 2003 making it the most popular network. Facebook has now taken its place.
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YouTube launched and started free online video streaming.
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Created by Bram Cohen, BitTorrent was a very successful file sharing service that you could upload or download to.
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Arduino uses Java to allow people to monitor computer activity and allow people to open up more programs.
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the IPhone and mobile phone was introduced to the public.
