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Emote-Icon
On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley. -
ARPA
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. -
packet-switching
In the early 1960s, American computer scientist Paul Baran developed the concept Distributed Adaptive Message Block Switching with the goal to provide a fault-tolerant, efficient routing method for telecommunication messages as part of a research program at the RAND Corporation, funded by the US Department of Defense. -
First Worm Created
United States Code: Title 18 (18 U.S.C. § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, March 7, 1991. Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. -
WAN
In 1965, Western Electric introduced the first widely used telephone switch that implemented true computer control. In 1966, Thomas Mar ill and Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network (WAN) for computer time sharing. -
IBM
The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150 and was introduced on August 12, 1981. -
First virus created
The first IBM PC virus in the "wild" was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. -
yahoo
The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. -
Michelangelo virus
Discovered in 1991, the Michelangelo virus was designed to infect DOS systems, more specifically the master boot record of the hard disk and the boot sector of floppy disks. -
Mosaic Browser
the first web browser to achieve popularity among the general public, is released. -
the time the internet was invented
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. -
Internet Explorer
The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Rear don, who, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review of 2003, used source code from Spyglass, Inc. -
when was amazon found
The Auction Web was founded in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Midyear as part of a larger personal site. One of the first items sold on Auction Web was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. -
Modem
In 1962, the first commercial modem was manufactured and sold as the Bell 103 by AT&T. The Bell 103 was also the first modem with full-duplex transmission, frequency-shift keying or FSK and had a speed of 300 bits per second or 300 bauds. The 56K modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townsend in 1996. -
AOL
On December 15th, AOL Instant Messenger will shut down after running since 1997. AIM dominated online chat in North America at ht... -
Wold wide web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
when was google found
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wickerwork) in Melon Park, California. Craig Silver stein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. -
the first virus on mobile was
The first known mobile virus, "Fornication", originated in Spain and was identified by antivirus labs in Russia and Finland in June 2000. -
Face Book
The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit -
YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. -
this is the info when safari was launched
Safari (web browser) Previously supported: Windows, last version 5.1.7 on May 9, 2012. Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple, based on the Web Kit engine. First released on desktop in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been bundled with iOS devices since the iPhone's introduction in 2007. -
iPhone was launched by iTunes
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Instagram
Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. Nine months after the launch the website had 10,000 users. Silbermann said he personally wrote to the site's first 5,000 users offering his personal phone number and even meeting with some of its users. -
Skype
On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S.à r.l for US$8.5 billion. The company was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which acquired all its technologies with the purchase.