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Beginning of the Cold war
tension between the western-capitalist bloc led by the United States and the eastern-communist bloc then led by the Soviet Union. -
ARPA
In 1957 the USSR launched the first artificial satellite in history, Sputnik 1, and, in this context, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA and linked to the United States, is organized in the United States Defense Department. -
Paul Baran presented communication system
In 1962, Paul Baran, a researcher for the United States Government, presented a communications system that, using computers connected to a decentralized network, was immune to external attacks. In the event that one or more nodes were destroyed, the others could continue communicating without any problem. -
TX2 to a Q-32
In 1965 a TX2 computer in Massachusetts was connected to a Q-32 in California via a switched but low speed and still limited telephone line. It worked and then allowed to work in a connected way but, as is easy to imagine today, the system was inadequate. -
Micheal Elie
1969 Michel Elie, considered one of the pioneers of the Internet, enters UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) and joins ARPA with a research grant. At the end of this year, the UCLA computer was connected to another from the SRI (Stanford Research Institute). -
Ray Tomlinson
In 1970 ARPANET is consolidated. Ray Tomlinson lays the foundation for what is now known as email. This need arises because the developers needed a coordination mechanism that they covered with this system. -
Tim Berners
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners Lee first described the hypertext transfer protocol that would lead to the first web using three new resources: HTML, HTTP, and a program called Web Browser. -
Growth
With the passage of time, social networks evolved, creating in 2002 Friendster, a social network for video game lovers. In 2003 MySpace, Linkedin (social network in the work environment) and in 2004 a Harvard university called Mark Zuckerberg created the social network that today is the most important in the world: Facebook. -
Facebook
Although it was created in 2004, Facebook did not have its great boom until 2007, when it could be translated into many languages, thus reaching countries around the world. Although social networks began only as a social model, over the years social networks have acquired a lot of relevance in the field of marketing. -
Youtube
In mid-2005, legend has it that at a party in San Francisco, 3 Paypal workers recorded a video and had difficulty sending it to their friends. Due to this inconvenience, the idea of creating YouTube, the most important video social network today, arose. The first video uploaded to the network did not take long to arrive: 04/23/2005 -
Microblogging
2006 was a very important year in the history of the Internet due to the appearance of the microblogging social network Twitter and because Google finally bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars, now acting as one of its subsidiaries. -
Twitch
Over time, a multitude of new social networks appeared: some were not successful, such as Google+. Others had it, but in an ephemeral way, like Snapchat. Some more recent ones are already among the favorites of social media users, such as TikTok, Telegram or Twitch.