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ARPANET was created. It was a connection of computers at UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, and Univ. of Utah.
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Email was introduced. Ray Tomlinson is credited for inventing email.
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Google was founded, in Menlo Park, CA. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, it is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
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Myspace was founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.
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Facebook was founded in Cambridge, MA. Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes were the founders of Facebook. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.
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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It was founded in San Mateo, CA and it is headquartered in San Bruno, CA.
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Twitter was founded in San Francisco, CA. Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone were the founders of twitter.
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Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA as well as Facebook. Facebook are the developers of Instagram.
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Messenger was released. It is an instant messaging service and software application which provides text and voice communication.
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Snapchat was founded by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. It is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application.