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ENIAC: First Computer Ever made
ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. -
E-Mail Invented
By: Ray Tomilson
Electronic mail, most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks via an email provider's server facility. -
TCP/IP Invented
Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet. -
Ethernet Created
thernet /ˈiːθərnɛt/ is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs).[1] It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3,[2] and has since been refined to support higher bit rates and longer link distances. Over time, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies such as token ring, FDDI and ARCNET. -
AOL multinational mass media corporation
CEO: Tim Armstrong
American multinational mass media corporation
Founders: Marc Seriff, Steve Case, Jim Kimsey -
Dank Memes Invented (internet memes)
By: Cliff Roth -
World Wide Web Created
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers. -
Archie
First Search Engine
Created by: Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. -
First Web Page
The NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to create the world's first website. Berners-Lee's site went live in 1991, and was accessed by a decidedly small audience of fellow CERN researchers. -
Internet Society Founded
The Internet Society is an international, non-profit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, and policy. -
First Graphical Browser Mosaic
While often described as the first graphical web browser, Mosaic was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaWWW. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. -
MSN Created
MSN (stylized as msn) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95. -
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Six Degrees
CEO: Andrew Weinreich
First Social Media Site -
Google was born
American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products.
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
CEO: Sundar Pichai -
Facebook Founded
Facebook is an online social networking service
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes -
Youtube Founded
CEO: Susan Wojcicki
Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim
YouTube is a video-sharing website. The service was created by three former PayPal employees and in November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. -
Twitter Founded
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone -
Imgur Founded
Imgur is an online image sharing community and image host
Founder: Alan Schaaf -
Instagram Initial Release
Original authors: Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger (Burbn, Inc.)
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app. -
Snapchat Release
Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University.
