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The Soviet Union sent the first satellite called Sputnik. It intensified the tensions in the Cold War. It was designed to reveal information about the density of the upper atmosphere.
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The Advanced Research Project Agency was created in response to the launch of Sputnik. Its initial purpose was to link computers at the Pentagon-funded institutions.
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Project ARPA was changed to ARPANET. They developed new nets and links, which gave place to IP/TCP protocol.
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The IMP network grew from 4 nodes to 15 nodes.
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Ray Tomlision developed email and used the @ to separate the username from the computer name. He was a contractor for ARPANET.
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ARPANET made its first trans-Atlantic connection with the University of London.
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With the popularity of emailing, John Vittal developed the first program which added the "Reply" and "Forward" functionality.
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Dennis Hayes developed the first PC modem, and they initially sold it to computer hobbyists.
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This was the year of the first unsolicited commercial message. It was sent out to 600 ARPANET users by Gary Thuerk.
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They were called MUD's (Multi User Dungeon). They were entirely text based virtual worlds.
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Scott Fahlman proposed using the emoticon after a joke.
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The first web page was created. Its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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HoTMaiL was the first web-mail service
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Google revolutionized the way in which people found information online.
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Wikipedia was one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content.
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MySpace grew to become the most popular social network in 2003.
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YouTube brought free online video. It allowed anyone to share their own videos.
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Facebook is on its rise, and has 400 million active users.
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The photo sharing site (Instagram) reaches 400 million users, outpacing twitter's 316 million users
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As of 2019, YouTube becomes the most visited website with 1.7 billion searches per month.
