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This marked the first milestone for video calls, including two-way video communication. ATT linked Bell Laboratories in New York City using Iconophone. -
MIT computer science professor, Fernando Corbato, developed the first digital password system for Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). -
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency), established by the U.S. Department of Defense, connected institutions using packet switching. This broke data into independent packets, with its unique address, then sent them independently across the network. Upon arrival, the packets were then reassembled in order to reconstruct the original message. -
Ray Tomlinson created a system enabled a person-to-person network messaging system on ARPANET, using the "@" symbol. -
The earliest, notable digital avatar was on MazeWar, which ran on ARPANET. The avatar was a graphical eyeball that moved through a 3D network maze. -
The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN. Its original purpose was to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists around the world. -
The first photo uploaded to the World Wide Web was of Les Horribles Cernettes, a comedy band at Cern. It used Adobe Photoshop and saved as a GIF file. -
Although different from the Amazon we know now, Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994 By Jeff Bezos. Bezos intended to sell books online. -
The earliest significant streaming platform was RealNetworks, launched with RealPlayer. It allowed users to stream audio and video for the first time over the internet. RealPlayer was the first to use media over the public internet, rather than local networks (regarding streaming platforms). -
Netflix, invented and founded by Reed Hasting and Marc Randolph, originated as a DVD-by-mail rental service. Its website launched a year later on April 14, 1998. -
John Hennessy, computer scientist and then-Dean of Engineering at Standard, searched the name "Gerhard Casper" in an attempt to show Google's innovative algorithm. -
Invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's original mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” -
The first recognized emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita. This provided a baseline for the rest of emoticons to come. -
The Black Web, also known as the "Dark Web," began to form with the creation of Freenet by Ian Clark. It allowed anonymous, censorship-resistant communication. -
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg with the goal of connecting students within Harvard by providing an online page with personal profiles. People could upload updates and were able to maintain contact with one another. -
Founded by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, YouTube's mission was simply to provide people with a platform where they could easily upload, share, and watch videos online. -
Created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, Twitter was developed as a simple SMS-based service for people to share status updates to their friends and others.
The first tweet was "just setting up my twttr"! -
Introduced by Steve Jobs, the first iPhone reinvented the mobile phone. -
Steve Jobs introduced FaceTime to the public during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. FaceTime allowed users to communicate visually and audibly with others over WiFi or cellular data. -
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger with the original purpose of providing a simple, mobile-first platform for sharing edited photos. -
Vine was founded by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofman, and Colin Kroll. It was a social media platform meant for sharing and watching short funny clips.
It was then shut down in 2017 due to the fact that it was unable to generate revenue and monetize its platform. -
Created by Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang, Musical.ly was a social media platform where users could create, share, and discover short lip-syncing videos to their profiles.
The app was then merged with TikTok in August 2018. -
TikTok was created by Chinese tech company, ByteDance, which was founded by Zhang Yiming. It's a social media platform where users create, share, and discover videos. It varies from lip-syncing, dances, comedy, and even cooking tutorials. -
Face ID was invented by Apple and was released with the iPhone X, replacing the Touch ID (fingerprint-based), for biometric authentication. This served as a more secure and reliable authentication method for iPhones. -
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an AI research company. The company's mission is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits humanity.
An extension of ChatGPT is DALL-E, made for image generation.