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ARPA
Created in February 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. -
Packet-Switching
Paul Baran in the early 1960's, and then independently a few years later by Donald Davies. Leonard Kleinrock conducted early research in the related field of digital message switching, and helped build the ARPANET, the world's first packet switching network. -
Modem
In 1962, the first commercial modem was manufactured and sold as the Bell 103 by AT&T. -
WAN
Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network (WAN) for computer time sharing. -
Apple
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. -
IBM
The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. Wikipedia -
First Emoticon
Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley. -) -
Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
The First Virus
The first virus that attacked MS-DOC is called Brain and was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1986. The virus infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. -
Worm
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It also resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. -
WWW
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
The Michelangelo virus
The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. -
Mosaic Web browser
Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. -
Amazon & Ebay
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website in September 3, 1995. -
Yahoo
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc -
Internet Explorer Web browser
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. Original authors: Thomas Reardon -
AOL Instant Messanger
tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed.” AOL Instant Messenger was created in 1997. -
Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware -
Timofonica: Mobile Virus
Timofonica originated in Spain and was identified by antivirus labs in Russia and Finland in June 2000. "Timofonica" sent SMS messages to GSM mobile phones that read (in Spanish) "Information for you: Telefónica is fooling you." These messages were sent through the Internet SMS gate of the MoviStar mobile operator. -
ITunes and Safari
iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001. Safari is a web browser developed by Apple based on the WebKit engine. First released in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been included in iOS devices since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. -
Facebook
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YouTube
Activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months.Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim -
IPhone
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Instagram & Pintrest
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos in March 2010. -
Skype
Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion.