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First internet message sent from UCLA to Stanford. The message sent stated "Lo" instead of the intended word of "Login".
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-first-message-transmission-29-10-2019-en -
First email sent by Ray Tomlinson. He sent the test message between two computers placed side-by-side in a Cambridge, Massachusetts laboratory, using the ARPANET system.
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First spam email sent by Gary Thuerk.He sent an unsolicited advertisement for new DEC computers to about 400 users on the ARPANET.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/05/its-40-years-since-the-first-spam-email-was-sent-here-are-6-things-you-didnt/ -
Personal computers enter homes and schools.
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Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web.
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Mosaic web browser released
https://www.my-internet-explorer.com/mosaic/ -
World Wide Web becomes publicly available. Allowing anyone to use and build upon it without royalties.
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web -
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezosas an online bookstore operating out of his garage in Bellevue, Washington.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-5/amazon-is-founded-by-jeff-bezos -
OnStar launched in 1996 under GM, developed with Hughes Electronics. It was the introduction of internet in cars.
https://www.onstar.com/why-onstar/evolution-of-onstar-innovations -
Nokia 9000 was the first cell phone to have Internet connectivity. Letting users send/receive emails and access basic web services over a cellular network.
https://medium.com/people-gadgets/the-gadget-we-miss-the-nokia-9000-communicator-ef8e8c7047ae -
Wi-Fi was created when the IEEE released the 802.11 wireless network
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Google was invented by Larry Page Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.
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Apple released the Apple iBook G3 which featured built in Wi-Fi.
https://www.wifirst.com/en/blog/thehistoryofwifitechnology -
Wikipedia launches in 2001 with the help of Larry Wales and Sanger.
https://onezero.medium.com/an-oral-history-of-wikipedia-the-webs-encyclopedia-1672eea57d2 -
Facebook was introduced by Mark Zuckerberg. https://www.britannica.com/money/Facebook -
Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/YouTube -
Apple released the first iPhone with the help of Steve Jobs.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-9/steve-jobs-debuts-the-iphone -
Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan.The platform gained massive popularity, particularly after the 2020 pandemic. Helping businesses and university keep in touch while the world was "shut down". -
ChatGPT was founded in 2022 designed to showcase the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) in a conversational format.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/05/19/a-short-history-of-chatgpt-how-we-got-to-where-we-are-today/ -
Moden internet has came such a long way. You can access the internet from almost anywhere in the world. From google, ChatGPT, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
https://medium.com/all-things-venture-capital/intro-to-vc-a-history-of-the-modern-internet-53e344886f97