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ARPA
The US government created Advanced Research Projects Agency to help start/create more information pertaining to science and technology. -
Packet Switching
Paul Baran created Packet Switching. It's the breaking of data into chunks which are brought to a destination and are re-assembled. -
Father of Computer Science
Lenard Kleinrock was known as the Father of Computer Science and Information Technology. He was also the first director of ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) computer science division. -
Arpanet was invented!
Arpanet was thought of by Bob Taylor. When Taylor worked in the Pentagon he had different systems that connected to time sharing. He had several locations these time-sharing systems were licked too. He had them at U.C Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Rand Corporation. He was tired of having all these time-sharing systems at different locations, so he decided to create one terminal that connected to everything. -
CompuServe
A business-oriented mainframe computer communication solution. This allowed members to share news and events with other members of the CompuServe. This was the biggest thing that people had before the Internet exploded and became huge. You could send messages to users that was called "e-mail" (the concept of e-mail wasn't exactly a thing yet at the time, but public access to it was.) -
BBS: Bulletin Board System
Online meeting places were independently produced hunks of code that allowed online users to communicate with systems, and could download games and files. (pirated software) And they also posted messages to other users. This gained a lot of popularity throughout the 80's - 90's -
AOL (America Online)
AOL was the Internet before the Internet. Users/Members created communities (profiles) in which users would list details about themselves. Members can message each other on there, whenever they make there profile they can follow other people. -
Internet
The Internet was in full throttle at this point. Yahoo just set up shop, Amazon had just begun selling book, and everyone wanted to get a PC. -
Internet Boom
Classmates.com proved almost immediately that the idea of a virtual reunion was a good one. "Who can I connect with that was once a schoolmate of mine," was asked by many people. So they provided this website that users could create profiles and locate classmates from years ago. -
SixDegrees Launched
SixDegrees.com was associated by actor Kevin Bacon. This was one of the very first site allowing its users to create profiles, invite friends, organize groups, and surf other user profiles. This site slowly fell through with computer users and had numerous complaints of spams. SixDegrees folded just after the turn of the millennium. -
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in 1998. It was a foundation created by Congress to carry out the United States treaty and copyright enforcement obligations and transition it to the digital age. -
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
COPPA was found in 1998. Congress implemented this act so parents could oversee and be in control of what their children were doing online. The act was there for children under the age of 13. COPPA wanted a safe place for children online. -
Friendster Launched
Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees. People called this, "Circle of Friends," and promoted the idea that a rich online community can exist only between people who have common bonds with each other. -
Internet Browser
Mosaic was created. It was the first browser that was used by many people. -
LinkedIn Launched
LinkedIn took the more serious and sober approach to the social networking compared to sites like "Friendster." LinkedIn is for classmates and teenagers and young adults as a resource for business people who want to connect with other professionals. LinkedIn is also referred to as "connections" because people use that as a source of connections for jobs. LinkedIn has more than 297 million members. -
MySpace Launched
MySpace was once the perennial favorite site to use. It did so by tempting the key young adult demographic with music, music videos, and a really fun and cool environment. It was the more hip thing during that time for young adults to use. -
Facebook Launched
Facebook was a Harvard-only exercise and remained a campus-oriented site for two years before finally opening to the public in 2006. Facebook is considered one of the most active social media sites in the world. They have more then 1.3 billion users. -
Youtube Launched
Youtube is a video-sharing service that allows users to post videos of someone or something for people to watch. Youtube was created by three former PayPal employees. -
Google buys Youtube
Google buys out youtube for $1.65 billion to start an online video revolution. Google is betting that the popular video-sharing will help them out with marketing and hope that viewers and advertisers transform from television to the internet. -
Twitter Launched
Twitter is a social media and news source that was created by Jack Dorsey. Dorsey originally imagined Twitter to be an SMS-based communication platform. So groups of people can see what there followers were doing based on there "status updates." -
First iPhone
The first iPhone was release by Apple. Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, immediately receiving media attention. -
Instagram Launched
Instagram is a video and picture sharing social media site. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger created this app together. When it first launched it was only available for devices with iOS, a version for Android and Windows devices was released a year and 6 months later in 2012. This app allows users to upload photos and videos which can be edited with filters that are featured on the app. -
Pinterest Launched
Pinterest is a web and mobile app company that operates a software system designed to discover information. They do this by using images and GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. Pinterest has reached 200 million monthly active users as of September 2017. -
Snapchat Released
One of the biggest concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are available for a short time before they become inaccessible (at the most 10 seconds.) The app was created for people sending pictures to one another on a private note, but then evolved to presently featuring "stories" of 24-hour chronological content, along with "Discover" to let brands show ad-supported short-form entertainment. -
Twitter purchases Vine
Twitter bought out Vine before its initial launch in 2013 for $30 million. Vine is a video sharing social-media site that only let people upload 6 second video clips. Vine couldn't keep up with all the other big social media sites and they were struggling to keep marketers' attention. -
Twitter increases character limit
Twitter expanded there character limit from 140 characters to 280 characters. They believed that it would help people out from not cramming their thoughts into only 140 characters. It helped out a lot of people a they saw a huge increase in tweets.
