History of the web

  • 1957

    1957

    The USSR launches it's first satellite named Sputnik, into space.
  • 1958

    1958

    The first microchip was invented
  • 1958

    1958

    Explorer 1 became first U.S. satellite to orbit the earth.
  • 1960

    1960

    The first flashdrive was invented
  • 1962

    1962

    The first computer game was invented called "Spacewar"
  • 1967

    1967

    Floppy disk was invented
  • 1971

    1971

    Ray Tomlinson invents the first email program
  • 1976

    1976

    Apple Computer was found by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
  • 1978

    1978

    The first mass-marketed personal computer, the Apple II, is launched
  • 1981

    1981

    The national science foundation developed computer science.
  • 1984

    1984

    The Apple Macintosh is put out on the market.
  • 1984

    1984

    Computer scientists built the PhoneNet system and established Internet connections between the PhoneNet system, the ARPANET, and the first network, Telenet.
  • 1993

    1993

    The Pentium processor is developed by Intel.
  • 1994

    1994

    Microsoft takes technology from spyglass to make Windows 95
  • 1995

    1995

    Java (programming language) is introduced
  • 2000

    2000

    The size of the world wide web is estimated to exceed 1 billion pages.
  • 2009

    2009

    Google has found over 1 trillion unique urls
  • 2010

    2010

    Instagram was discovered