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50's
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) launched the first artificial earth satellite in 1957. It was named Sputnik. -
50's
Explorer 1 became first U.S. satellite to orbit the earth. -
50's
ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) was a group formed by the government to research space and advance in technology. The Microchip was invented in 1958. -
60's
The 1960’s web had only news and a different setup than the web of today. This is also when the web went through the biggest breakthrough in history which is the flash drive -
60's
First computer game was created called SpaceWar the companies went through a lot of videogames in the sixties mainly frogger and spacewar type games. -
60's
Floppy disk was invented the floppy disk got outdated and was morphed into the flash drive -
60's
First message was sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute he UCLA team thought that it would be best to test theories before they sold it to the public -
70's
The first radio network which makes use of random packet transmission, the Alohanet, is launched at the University of Hawaii. -
70's
Ray Tomlinson invents an email program. -
70's
The first commercially available popular personal computer, the Altair 8800 is introduced as a kit. -
70's
The first mass-marketed personal computer, the Apple II, is launched -
80's
The national science foundation developed computer science. -
80's
Computer scientists built the PhoneNet system and established Internet connections between the PhoneNet system, the ARPANET, and the first network, Telenet. -
80's
NSFNET, a "backbone" to connect five supercomputer centers located all over the United States, allowed the establishment of regional networks around the country, making a brighter, more-connected future possible for more people. -
90's
Microsoft takes technology from spyglass to make Windows 95 -
90's
Java (programming language) is introduced -
90's
Netscape (general name for a series of web browsers) announces plans to give its browser away for free -
00's
The size of the world wide web is estimated to exceed 1 billion pages. -
00's
2001-Wikipedia was launched
2003- Myspace was launched
2004- Facebook was launched
2005- YouTube launches
2006- Twitter was created
2007- Tumblr was found -
00's
Google has found over 1 trillion unique urls
