Internet Timeline

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    Arpanet was created on October 29, 1969. 4 western universities came up with it.
  • World Wide Web

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web. He is a British computer scientist.
  • Yahoo

    Yahoo
    Yahoo was started at Stanford University. Founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
  • Ebay

    Ebay
    The founder of Ebay was Pierre Omidyar. The headquarters is located in San Jose, California.
  • Google

    Google
    Google began in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin Ph.D. students at Stanford University.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
  • instagram

    instagram
    Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It was launched in October 2010.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. Snapchat was created in September 2011.
  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    Founder Ben Silbermann at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March 2012. Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010.
  • Vine

    Vine
    Vine is owned by Twitter. Vine was launched in January. Three young founders Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll.