history of the internet

By bigwaun97

  • internet

    internet
    35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004. Stamp of Azerbaijan, 2004. By December 5, 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET grew rapidly.

  • ebay

    ebay
    It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.

  • miniclip

    miniclip
    Miniclip is a free online games website. It was launched in 2001 and is known for having a large and varied collection of games. It is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website. It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie on a budget of £40,000 and quickly grew.

  • my space

    my space
    Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States.

  • facebook

    facebook
    Facebook is a corporation and online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in the United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

  • bing

    bing
    is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. ... The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005. ... on similar grounds, as did a Missouri-based design company called Bing!

  • youtube

    youtube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.

  • twitter

    twitter
    Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.

  • instgram

    instgram
    The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014.

  • snapchat

    snapchat
    By October 22, 2012, Snapchat had not made any revenue and Spiegel said at the time that the company was not open to being acquired. By February 2013, Snapchat confirmed a US$13.5 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark Capital, which valued the company at between US$60 million and US$70 million.