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ENIAC Completed
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was completed in 1945 which was among the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made. -
CompuServe Founded
CompuServe is one of the earliest forms of the Internet, founded by Dr. John R. Goltz. -
ARPANET Created
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. -
Email Invented
Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson. -
Usenet established
Usenet is a worldwide distributed disccussion system which allowed users to read and post messages with other users. It was created by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1980. -
IBM PC Introduced
The IBM Personal Computer was the first vastly successful computer which expanded the usage and knowledge of digital communication to the public. -
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 Enacted
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 was enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer. -
Internet Relay Chat created
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to allow news in the Usenet style, real time discussions, and similar Bulletin Board System features. -
World Wide Web Introduced
The World Wide Web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. -
Yahoo Launched
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. -
Google Began
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin which vastly improved upon Internet Search Engines. -
Telecommunications Act of 1996 Passed
An Act to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies. -
SixDegrees.com Created
SixDegrees.com was one of the first social networking services which allowed users to list friends, family members, and acquaintances both on the site and externally. -
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) Released
AIM was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL. -
Netflix Founded
Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. -
Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999
Congress approved a significant hike in the minimum statutory damages for various types of copyright infringement in the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 (H.R. 3456). The law increased the minimum statutory damages for infringements from $500 to $750 and increased the maximum from $20,000 to $30,000. The maximum for willful infringement increased from $100,000 to $150,000. -
LinkedIn Launched
LinkedIn was founded in December 2002. -
MySpace Launched
MySpace was launched in 2003. -
FaceBook Launched
FaceBook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes. -
Reddit Launched
Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. -
YouTube Launched
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. -
Twitter Launched
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. -
Google Buys YouTube
YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. -
Hulu Launched
Hulu was founded by Bruce Campbell, Peter Chernin, JB Perrette, Michael Lang, Beth Comstock and Jason Kilar. -
First iPhone Released
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Spotify Launched
Spotify was developed in 2006 by a team at Spotify AB, in Stockholm, Sweden. -
Pinterest Launched
Pinterest was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. -
Instagram Launched
Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and was created exclusively for iOS devices. -
Snapchat Launched
Snapchat was founded by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. -
Google Plus Launched
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iMessage Launched
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Vine Launched
Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll. -
Facebook Buys Instagram
Facebook purchases Instagram for $1 billion.
