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J.C.R. Licklider of MIT introduced a series of memos of a globally interconnected set of computers. This idea was similar to what the internet became.
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The U.S.Advanved Research Projects Agency develops a way for computers to connect to each other, initially made to share information.
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Created by Ray Tomlinson, electronic mail makes its first appearance on the internet, making it possible to send letters to others with an email.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocal were set on computers as a standard of communication.
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Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf research information about the internet and give it its name
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NSFNET, the successor of ARPAnet, is created. This runs until 1995.
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Tim Berners-Lee releases the World Wide Web, revolutionizing the internet.
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Mosaic, or later called Netscape, was a sophisticated browser created by researchers and students from the University of Illinois. This user friendly web browser finally allowed pictures and texts to be on the same page for the first time.
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The famous web browser develepod by Microsoft is released.
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Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph create the famous online streaming media.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin release a search engine.
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The first free music downloader is co-founded by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker.
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Mark Zuckerberg creates a social media website for college students. Eventually, this developed into a website for typical social use.
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim create a video sharing website. This website soon became a billion dollar worth company
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Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone created a social networking website. Beginning unpopular, only a few characters were allowed but then allowed status updates and rose in fame.
