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The United States sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency in response to Soviet Russia's launch of Sputnik.
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Paul Baran, an electrical engineer, invented "pocket switching". It works by breaking data into chunks and reassembles it into its own area.
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Bob Taylor created Arpanet to connect multiple terminals to transfer data.
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ARPA gave the job of building IMP's (interface message processors) to Bolt, Beranek & Newman. BBN is a technologies company that was founded in 1948.
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August of 1969 BBN delivered their prototype of a rocket to reach the moon and back, as a way to compete with Russia after their recent launch of Sputnik years earlier. Later in September the first IMP was connected to the first host and so the internet was born.
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Stanford University Research Institute got its first IMP and the first communication was sent and received on the internet
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This is the date of the first International Conference on Computer Communication in Washington that demonstrates the use of Arpanet
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Transmission Control Protocol was designed to interconnect networks. This is a response to Louis Pouzin who created his own network in France called "Cyclades"
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The Microsoft Corporation was created
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Apple Computer Inc. was founded in 1976. A year later Apple introduced the Apple 2.
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The very first spam was sent into the Arpanet system by Gary Thurek, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation.
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IBM was founded in 1911. In 1981 IBM introduced the IBM PC to compete with the Apple 2.
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Controlled Video, an electronic-gaming service, coined the phrase "You've Got Mail" within their communication systems
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Under the Ronald Regan administration, his former national security advisor, John Poindexter, was on trial for the Iran-contra scandal. This case was the first to bring e-mail as evidence into the courtroom.
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The first significant attack on the internet came from Cornell student, Robert Tappon Morris, called the Morris Worm. In U.S. vs Morris, Robert Morris was the first person indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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IBM included the first modems into their PC's for inter communication to create e-mail.
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British scientists, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Caillian, introduced the World Wide Web.
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Smartphones were invented in 1992 but were called the Simon Personal Communicator.
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The launch of the first widely used internet browser Mosaic
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Sky Dayton founded EarthLink, one of the first internet-service providers.
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Netscape Navigator was created. In 1995, a year later, it dominated the market.
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Jeffery P Bezos created the online bookstore "Amazon.com". Its not like the Amazon that we know of today.
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Pierre Omidyar created eBay
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Craig Newman created Craigslist
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Steve Jobs makes a return to Apple Inc.
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Google the first search engine was created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
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At the age of 12, Elon Musk launched X.com which later merged into PayPal.
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From 2000-2002 the NASDAQ Composite Index lost 78% of its value as a result of all the pre-speculation of the dot-com craze. Pets.com is an example of a company that was started and ended up bankrupt or went out of business within a few years.
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In 2000, U.S. District Court Judge ruled Microsoft had illegally held a monopoly on Windows. Later in 2001 the ruling was upheld but Microsoft remained one company and was allowed to bundle Windows and Internet Explorer together, but they had to offer consumers to be able to choose between different browsers.
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Online Wikipedia was created
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In 2001 Apple came out with the ipod. It was the predicessor to the iphone and contained only downloadable music from the internet.
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As a result on the bombings on the World Trade Center in New York City, the internet became a source to track the event. This set the stage for the internet to be used as a vital outlet for news.
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John Abrams creates Friendster the very first social networking site on the internet.
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Linkedin was introduced to the internet
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Myspace was launched
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Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes create Facebook. Later in 2006 it became open to the general public
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Chad Hurley creates Youtube
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Facebook becomes open to the general public and takes off in the economy.
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The social media network Twitter is created
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CNN and Youtube partner to create Youtube Debates, combining social media and politics.
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Google creates Google+ its own social network
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In 2007 Steve Jobs introduced iphones to the market
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The U.S. Airforce Cyber Command is created and its operation is to defend the nation from cyber attacks.
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Snapchat and Instagram apps hit smartphones
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Facebook aquires Oculus VR to expand social media into virtual reality
