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1958 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
In 1958 the USA government created the Advanced Research Projects Agency. This agency was created to help jump-start new efforts in science and technology. The USA was very competitive with Russia at the time which is why we wanted to be more advanced with technology. After this agency was created, it soon helped the growth of the Internet. -
1960 Packet Switching
Paul Baran, an electrical engineer, conceived one of the Internet’s building blocks—packet switching. Packet switching breaks data into chunks, or “packets,” and lets each one take its own path to a destination, where they are re-assembled -
1969 Interfacing Communication Networks
In 1969, interfacing communication networks were being
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1973 Bulletin Board System
Bulletin Board System allowed users to communicate with a central system where they could download files or games and post messages to other users. -
1977 First Computer Developed
Apple Computers introduces the Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics is demonstrated at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16, 1977; it went on sale June 10th of that same year. -
1980 CompuServe
CompuServe allowed members to share files and access news and events. Not only could you send a message to your friend via “e-mail,” you could also join any of CompuServe’s thousands of discussion forums to communicate with thousands of other members. -
1981 IBM PC
1981, IBM competed with Apple and launched a rival model to the Apple ll, and was called IBM PC. -
1985 Chat Rooms Launched
In 1985, chat rooms were launched. Back then, what was called community is now referred to as social media. Quantum Link(Q-Link) was a chat room or online service, that allowed multi-user chat, email, file sharing, and games. -
1991 AOL
AOL (America Online) is the name of a popular online service. The company was renamed in 1991 and is considered an early Internet pioneer, providing many Internet services in the 1990's including dial-up Internet access, email and instant messaging. AOL was previously known as Q-Link which was founded in 1985 -
1991 The World Wide Web Was Introduced
Discovered on August 6, 1991, WWW is a global information medium where users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. -
1994 Mosaic
In 1994, the first widely used internet browser Mosaic was launched. Today it's a discontinued web browser. It has been credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. -
1995 Amazon
What is used today by millions of people around the world for online shopping, Amazon was first launched in 1995 and focused primarily on books. Today, you can find and buy almost anything on Amazon.com -
1995 Microsoft Windows 95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft. -
1998 Google
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google is a very popular search engine -
1999 MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger is a popular messaging, video and voice calling service. -
2002 Friendster
In 2002 Friendster was originally a social networking service website that allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. -
2003 Myspace
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. -
2004 Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg launched the Facebook site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. The social networking site made it easy to connect and share with family and friends online. -
2005 Youtube
YouTube is a video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can create and upload your own videos to share with others. -
2006 Twitter
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Twitter is a social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. -
2010 Instagram
Instagram is a very popular social networking application where people can post pictures, send messages, and connect with others that they follow. -
2011 Snapchat
Snapchat is a mobile app that allows users to send and receive "snaps" (photos and videos) that can only be viewed for a certain amount of seconds
