Computer and Internet History

By Victoria.Hayton

  • Global Network

    The first global network was established using electrical telegraphy and global span.

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Intergrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer.

  • Pong

    William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game, it was a very simple tennis game.

  • Floppy disk

    The floppy disk (also known as a diskette) is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium.

  • Telstra

    Telstra Corporation Limited is Australia's largest telecommunications and media company.

  • Apple Inc.

    Apple was established by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

  • Usenet

    Usenet is a worldwide distrbuted discussion system.It was developed from the general-purpiose UUCP dial-up network architecture.

  • Facebook

    Facebook is an online social networking service. In 2006, Facebook was opened to everyone to everyone at least 13 years with a valid email address.

  • Youtube

    Youtube is a video-sharing website which was brought by Google for US$1.65 billion.

  • First iPhone

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs conceived an idea of using a multi-touch touchscreen to interact with a computer in a way in which he could type directly onto the display, essentially removing the physical keyboard and mouse, the same as a tablet computer.

  • Netflix

    Netflix was orgininally founded in 1997,Scotts Vallet, California by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings.