The internet

Rise of the Internet, Web, and Social Media

  • The OG of Computers

    The OG of Computers
    The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called Mark I by Harvard University's staff, was a general purpose electromechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
  • Foundation of the Internet

    Foundation of the Internet
    Connection between computers.
  • First Personal Computer

    First Personal Computer
    Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975.[1] He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer".
  • Internet

    Internet
    Researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.
  • HTTP & HTML Created

    HTTP & HTML Created
    Tim Berners-Lee and his team at CERN are credited with inventing the original HTTP along with HTML and the associated technology for a web server and a text-based web browser.
  • World Wide Web Becomes Live

    World Wide Web Becomes Live
    The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    After Myspace came Mark Zuckerberg the creator of Facebook. It became the very first big/popular social networking services that continues to grow each day.
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube is an American video-sharing website.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    A mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application.