Web History By berkbrit Oct 4, 1957 USSR launched the first artificial earth satellite Jan 31, 1958 Explorer 1 became first U.S. sateille to orbit the earth Sep 17, 1958 Microchip was invented Feb 17, 1960 First computer game was invented called SpaceWar Sep 17, 1967 The Floppy Disk was Invented Sep 17, 1969 Nodes began to be installed in several colleges Oct 16, 1971 Ray Tomlinson invents an email program Apr 1, 1976 Apple Computers were founded by steve jobs and Steve Wozniak Oct 12, 1978 Apple II becomes the first mass market personal computer Sep 19, 1981 Computer science foundation developed computer science Sep 17, 1983 The computer science research network had more than 70 sites online Sep 19, 1985 NSFNET (a backbone) Mar 22, 1993 The Pentium Processor is developed by Intel Nov 17, 1994 Microsoft takes technology from spyglass to make Windows 95 Sep 17, 1995 Java (programming language) is introduced Sep 17, 2000 the size of the world wide web is estimated to exceed 1 billion pages Sep 17, 2001 Wikipedia was launched Sep 17, 2002 web 2.0 begins Sep 17, 2003 Myspace was launched Sep 17, 2004 Firefox was Launched Sep 17, 2004 facebook was launched Sep 17, 2005 Youtube launches Sep 17, 2007 Tumblr was found Sep 17, 2008 Google Chrome was Invented Sep 17, 2009 Google has found over 1 trillion unique urls Sep 17, 2010 instagram was discovered