Luke McCarty COSC 100 Timeline

First Web Stream

Jun 24, 1993

The first live streaming was done by the band Severe Tire Damage on June 24, 1993. The event was seen live in Australia and other locations over the Internet.

eBay is founded

Sep 3, 1995

eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

NASA Pathfinder

Jul 4, 1997

The Mars Pathfinder successfully lands on Mars July 4, 1997. The NASA Pathfinder website showing real-time images sent from the Pathfinder on Mars receives more than 100 million hits during its first four days. In response to the popularity, NASA sets up 25 mirror pages to handle the traffic. The site sets a new popularity record.

First Wiki

Mar 25, 1999

The first Wiki is introduced with WikiWikiWeb on March 25, 1999.

Windows XP Released

Oct 25, 2001

Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001. Windows XP was the most beloved operating system of all time.

Facebook launches

Feb 4, 2004

Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook February 4, 2004, which later becomes Facebook.

Youtube launches

Feb 15, 2005

YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005.

Apple introduces iPhone

Jan 9, 2007

Apple introduces the iPhone to the public at the January 9, 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.

Apple introduces iPad

Jan 27, 2010

Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010.

Watson wins

Feb 16, 2011

Watson, an IBM Super computer beats the two best human Jeopardy players in a three day event with a score greater than the two human players combined on February 16, 2011.

First Government approved drone delivery

Jul 17, 2015

A drone from Flirtey makes a medical delivery on July 17, 2015 and becomes the first government-approved drone delivery.

Raspberry Pi released

Oct 15, 2015

The Raspberry Pi single-board computer is released in the United Kingdom.