internet evolution

By camren

  • advanced research projects agency

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • pioneer is responsible for packet-switching concept

    Paul Baran developed the concept Distributed Adaptive Message Block Switching with the goal to provide a fault-tolerant

  • the Internet invented

    Robert E. Kahn
    Vint Cerf

  • apple

  • IBM launch the personal computer

    IBM announced the Personal Computer on 12 August 1981.

  • Who used the first emoticon

    On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley

  • first virus

    The first widespread virus for an IBM PC operating system was called Brain.

  • first mobile virus and when was it created

    The first widespread virus for an IBM PC operating system was called Brain. Like Elk Cloner, it was also a boot sector virus, although its creators had little in common with Skrenta. Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi say they had't heard of him or Elk Cloner when they wrote Brain in 1986.Mar 17, 2015

  • the first worm created

    Robert Tappan Morris was a Harvard graduate and Cornell graduate student when he developed the first widely spread Internet “worm.” He released it on Nov. 2, 1988, using MIT's systems to disguise the fact that he was a Cornell student.

  • World Wide Web

    Inventor: Tim Berners-Lee

  • Michelangelo virus

    The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia.

  • When was the Mosaic web browser launched

    released in September 1993

  • When was Internet Explorer launched? By whom?

    The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon, who, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review of 2003, used source code from Spyglass, Inc.

  • Amazon and eBay

    July 5, 1994

  • yahoo

    1994 January - Two individuals named Jerry Yang and David Filo founded the company Yahoo! 1995 January 18 - The domain name yahoo.com was created. 1996 April - An IPO was launched by Yahoo! with 49 employees.

  • When was the modem invented and by whom?

    The 56K modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townshend

  • Who created first wide-area network (WAN)

    In 1966, Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network (WAN) for computer time sharing.

  • AOL launch instant messenger

    tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift,

  • google

  • Apple launch iTunes and Safari browsers

    Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple, based on the WebKit engine. First released on desktop in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been bundled with iOS devices since the iPhone's introduction in 2007. Safari is the default browser on Apple devices.

  • facebook

    a social networking service launched as Face Mash in July 2003, but later changing to The Facebook on February 4, 2004. Mark Zuckerberg

  • youtube

    YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal.

  • Apple launch the iPhone

  • skype

    In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, valuing the business at $2.75 billion. Skype was acquired by Microsoft in May 2011 for $8.5 billion.

  • Instagram and pinterest

    Development of Pinterest began in December 2009 Instagram October 6, 2010