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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created in February 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. -
Modem
In 1962, the first commercial modem was manufactured and sold as the Bell 103 by AT&T.The 56K modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townshend in 1996. -
first wide-area network
In 1966, Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network (WAN) for computer time sharing. -
packet-switching concept
The packet switching methodology employed in the ARPANET was based on concepts and designs by Americans Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran, -
Apple
April 1, 1976, Cupertino, CA -
IBM launch
August 12, 1981 -
Emoticon
On September 19, 1982, 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 -
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. -
worm
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. -
the Michelangelo virus
The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. -
Mosaic web browser launched
it first launched in January 23, 1993 -
Mosaic web browser
it first launched in January 23, 1993 -
amazon and ebay
amazon-July 5, 1994, Seattle, WA
Ebay -September 3, 1995, San Jose, CA -
Internet explorer
Microsoft originally released Internet Explorer 1.0 in August 1995 -
Yahoo
March 2, 1995 -
AOL
AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down after 20 years. The pioneering chat app that taught us to text is pulling the plug. On December 15th, AOL Instant Messenger will shut down after running since 1997. -
Google
September 4, 1998, Menlo Park, CA -
safari
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 -
Mobile Virus
Cabir is the first ever computer virus that can infect mobile phones and has been discovered by the French arm of Kaspersky Labs, a Russian security software developer, -
Facebook
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, -
Youtube
The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. -
iphone launch
June 29, 2007 -
Skype
In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay -
instagram and pinterest
instgram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. pinterest was launched March 2010; 8 years ago
