The Great History of the Internet

By zw469637
  • When was the modem invented and by whom?

    When was the modem invented and by whom?

    The earliest form of a modem in its true sense was created in the 1920's. While the concept for the modem had been around since the 1920's, the first modem made specifically for personal computers was invented by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hayes.
  • Who created first wide-area network (WAN)?

    Who created first wide-area network (WAN)?

    The first known WAN was created by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system. An enormous network of dedicated phone lines, telephones, and modems linked the sites together.
  • Who created Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and when?

    Who created Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and when?

    Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957.
  • What pioneer is responsible for packet-switching concept?

    What pioneer is responsible for packet-switching concept?

    Packet switching was independently invented by American electrical engineer Paul Baran and British computer scientist Donald Davies and formed the basis for communication across the Internet.
  • What was the first virus? When was it created?

    What was the first virus? When was it created?

    As noted by Discovery, the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN. Creeper was actually designed as a security test to see if a self-replicating program was possible.
  • When was Apple founded?

    When was Apple founded?

    Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
  • When does IBM launch the personal computer?

    When does IBM launch the personal computer?

    IBM's own Personal Computer (IBM 5150) was introduced in August 1981, only a year after corporate executives gave the go-ahead to Bill Lowe, the lab director in the company's Boca Raton, Fla., facilities.
  • Who used the first emoticon -)

    Who used the first emoticon -)

    he word emoticon comes from a combination of the words emotion and icon. Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982.
  • What year was the Internet invented? By whom?

    What year was the Internet invented? By whom?

    January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet we use today.
  • When was the first worm created and what was the name?

    When was the first worm created and what was the name?

    The Morris Worm was a self-replicating computer program (worm) written by Robert Tappan Morris, a student at Cornell University, and released from MIT on November 2, 1988.
  • Who introduces the World Wide Web by whom?

    Who introduces the World Wide Web by whom?

    Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
  • When was the Michelangelo virus created?

    When was the Michelangelo virus created?

    The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level.
  • When was the Mosaic web browser launched?

    When was the Mosaic web browser launched?

    NCSA Mosaic is a discontinued web browser, and one of the first to be widely available. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
  • When was Yahoo founded?

    When was Yahoo founded?

    It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web".
  • Amazon and eBay were founded when?

    Amazon and eBay were founded when?

    Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.
  • When was Internet Explorer launched? By whom?

    When was Internet Explorer launched? By whom?

    Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 made its debut on August 24, 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft had licensed, like many other companies initiating browser development, from Spyglass Inc.
  • When does AOL launch instant messenger?

    When does AOL launch instant messenger?

    May 1997: AOL releases AIM as a standalone program for Windows. May 2006: AIM Pages is introduced, and then shuts down in 2007; AIM Phoneline is released to let users make and receive calls, and then shuts down in 2009. March 2008: iOS users can now install the AIM app. April 2010: AIM comes to the iPad.
  • When was Google founded?

    When was Google founded?

    Google, in full Google LLC formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017), American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc.
  • When did Apple launch iTunes and Safari browsers?

    When did Apple launch iTunes and Safari browsers?

    MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 7, 2003—Apple® today unveiled Safari™, the fastest and easiest to use web browser ever created for the Mac®. Apple's Safari was released in 2003 as the default browser on Macintosh personal computers.
  • When was Facebook launched? By whom?

    When was Facebook launched? By whom?

    Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with nearly three billion users as of 2021, and about half that number were using Facebook every day.
  • What was the first mobile virus and when was it created?

    What was the first mobile virus and when was it created?

    In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the Symbian 60 OS.
  • When was YouTube launched and by whom?

    When was YouTube launched and by whom?

    Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.
  • When did Apple launch the iPhone?

    When did Apple launch the iPhone?

    On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. The iPod Touch, which came with an iPhone-style touchscreen to the iPod range, was also released later in 2007.
  • When was Instagram and Pinterest launched?

    When was Instagram and Pinterest launched?

    Instagram was released to the public in Apple's App Store on October 6, 2010, and reached 25,000 users on its first day. Pinterest was founded by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann. It launched as a closed beta in March 2010 and was officially launched later in the year.
  • Who bought Skype and when?

    Who bought Skype and when?

    In May of 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion.