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The internet was invented
The internet was originally invented as a military defense system in the United States during the Cold War. -
E-mail was invented
By: Ray Tomilson
Electronic mail, most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks via an email provider's server facility. -
The first known video game and competition
The first video game was made in 1962 and was made by a Institution named Steve Russell at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first video game was made public in 19 October 1972 at Stanford University for the game Spacewar! . It was also the same day and place that the first competition took place. -
Ai was founded
Ai was first introduced 1974-80 but due to the lack of evented technology it was not successful. But in 1955 it was successful but it needed to be improved -
TCP/IP Invented
Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet. -
Ethernet Created
thernet /ˈiːθərnɛt/ is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs).[1] It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3,[2] and has since been refined to support higher bit rates and longer link distances. Over time, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies such as token ring, FDDI and ARCNET. -
The First ".com" debuts
The first .com domain was registered to a computer company out of Massachusetts named symbolic. Today, there are well over 150 million .com registered online. -
AOL multinational mass media corporation
CEO: Tim Armstrong
American multinational mass media corporation
Founders: Marc Seriff, Steve Case, Jim Kimsey -
Dank Memes Invented (internet memes)
By: Cliff Roth -
The www (world wide web) goes live
The world wide web is a collection of web pages that are accessible through the network of computers called the internet. In 1991, Berners- lee published the first-ever webpage, which was basically just filled with instructions on how to actually use the world wide web. -
First Web Page
The NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to create the world's first website. Berners-Lee's site went live in 1991, and was accessed by a decidedly small audience of fellow CERN researchers. -
Archie
First Search Engine
Created by: Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. -
The first webcam is put to use
when a group of researchers working in the computer lab at the university of Cambridge wanted a han -
Internet Society Founded
The Internet Society is an international, non-profit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, and policy. -
First Graphical Browser Mosaic
While often described as the first graphical web browser, Mosaic was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaWWW. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. -
Yahoo! First Exclaimed
Electrical engineering students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a human-edited web directory they initially dubbed “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web” in January 1994. . Two months later, they shrewdly renamed it “Yahoo,” an abbreviation of “Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle,” and a new way to browse the web was born -
NASA
On July 8, 1997, Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day.
The term “weblog“ is coined it is later shortened to “blog.“ -
MSN Created
MSN (stylized as msn) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95. -
Hotmail First Ignited
Billed as one of the world’s first free web-based email providers back in 1996, Hotmail gave users an opportunity to access their inbox anywhere in the world. It wouldn't be long before Microsoft acquired the company in December 1997 for $400 million—and by 1999, the service registered more than 30 million active members. The brand itself was on borrowed time after the sale, though: By the early 2010s, Hotmail was rebranded as Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million users. -
Google is born
American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products.
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
CEO: Sundar Pichai -
Napster Upended the Music Industry
The music industry would never again be the same after Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker created Napster, the peer-to-peer internet software that allowed users to share digital audio files for free. Although the company was eventually done in by a plethora of lawsuits over copyright issues, millions of consumers flocked to the service, fundamentally changing the way people valued their favorite music. -
Wikipedia Started Crowdsourcing
on January, 2001, Wikipedia began as a free online encyclopedia for people looking to research new topics, cram before a big test, or just settle a bar bet. But the very same open-platform nature that allows the information to be accessible for all also means people can add their own revisions and edits to pages, without the rigorous fact-checking you get from a traditional encyclopedia. -
Facebook launches
On February 4, 2004, Facebook debuted as Thefacebook, an online directory created by Mark Zuckerberg strictly for Harvard students that became the most powerful social network in the world. Not only has it connected people across the globe and, more importantly, reunited high school friends who share a love for cat videos, but it precipitated an ongoing reckoning about the harmful effects of social media on individuals, politics, and societies around the globe. -
Youtube Founded
CEO: Susan Wojcicki
Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim
YouTube is a video-sharing website. The service was created by three former PayPal employees and in November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. -
twitter founded
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone -
Apple releases the iPhone
Apple’s release of the first iPhone on June 29, 2007, more or less transformed the way we engage with the internet—and everyone else—overnight. Its sleek portability and continuously expanding list of features made it possible to talk, work, shop, and do just about everything else with a swipe of the finger. -
Instagram release
Original authors: Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger (Burbn, Inc.)
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app. -
snap chap release
Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. -
The release of iPhone 16
The iPhone 16 series was officially unveiled on September 9, 2024, at the "It's Glowtime" event. Pre-orders kicked off on September 13, and the iPhone 16 range hits the shelves on Friday, September 20.