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Beginning of investigations by ARPA, an agency of the US Department of Defense, where J. C. R. Licklider successfully defends his ideas regarding a global computer network. -
First conference on ARPANET, which point was to plan the instalations and operation of the proyect which changed the world -
Finally, It was created when the US Department of Defense developed ARPANET, a computer network created during the Cold War whose objective was to eliminate dependence on a Central Computer, and thus make North American military communications much less vulnerable. -
Birth of the InterNetworking Working Group, the organization in charge of managing the Internet. -
The United Kingdom and Norway stick to the Internet, each with a computer, suposing the first foreign contact -
The proyect was successful, so It was share with people, which created the NewsGroups (discussion forums) by American students, whosn objective was to find the utilities and problems of the proyect to make It better -
Definition of the TCP/IP protocol and the word "Internet", being recogniced all over the world -
As the proyect was so efective in Its function, It was lately started being used in mensagery or even for entertainment, installing 1000 computers all over US. -
The World Wide Web created by Tim Berners Lee, being the creator of the Web 1.0 -
Internet Explorer is created in 1995 by Microsoft -
In 1998, Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, It started as a college project in January 1996 when they were both graduate students in computer science at Stanford University. The original name of the search engine was BackRub, but in 1997 the founders decided to change the name to Google, inspired by the mathematical term "googol" which refers to the number 10 raised to the power of 100, in reference to their objective of organizing the enormous amount of information on the Web -
In 2004, Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Harvard University students and roommates, along with Gmail in the same year, marking a massive impact in the future -
YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. -
After the apparition of the social media and Its evolution, in 2006 starts what is considered the golden age of the internet meme. At the beginning of the 21st century, the meme was simply one more element among the many that existed in forum culture, but over time, the way we perceive and use them has changed radically. -
In 2006, Jack Dorsey created one of the most popular apps on internet, twitter. It is estimated that it has more than 500 million users, generating around 65 million tweets daily. It has been called the "SMS of the Internet. In 2023, Elon Musk brought twitter, and called it X. -
In 2009, Jan Koum mades whatsup and plublished into internet. Now, it's one of the most important platforms of comunication.