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1876: the first telephone-
Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a telephone. Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849. (www.google.com) -
1946: ENIAC-
The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. (www.google.com) -
1957: history of the internet The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s-
Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. -
1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
1969-computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
for the first time, The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
1970-An Arpanet network was established-
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
1971-Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
1974-The beginning of TCP/IP- A proposal was published to link Arpa-
like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
1977- The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented-
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
1978- Spam is born-
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
1979- MUD –
The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted- The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
1982- The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. -
1984-The domain name system was created The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created.
The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
1989: the first hacker of Internet-
Robert Tappan Morris Becomes First Hacker Prosecuted for Spreading Virus. On July 26, 1989, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris was indicted for spreading the Internet's first worm virus, infecting more than 6,000 university, research center and military computers. (www.google.com) -
1990-World Wide Web protocols finished The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee-
Based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
1991-First web page created, brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet-
The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
1996: google was born
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. (www.google.com) -
1997: Six Degrees-
The first recognizable social media site, was created. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that's still popular today. (www.google.com) -
1998: The first emoji-
first created emoji while he was a member of a team that, at the time, was preparing for the debut of NTT Docomo's i-mode, the world's first mobile Internet system. By Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team working on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform. (www.google.com) -
2004: History of Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005, and version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006. (www.google.com) -
2005: youtube was made-
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal. In fact, Hurley designed the PayPal logo after reading a Wired article about the online payment company and e-mailing the startup in search of a job -
2007: Apple created and annouced the iphone-
The first generation iPhone was made available in the UK, France, and Germany The iPhone (retroactively labeled the original iPhone, and often referred to as iPhone 1, iPhone 1G, or iPhone 2G) is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the first generation of iPhone and was announced on January 9, 2007 after years of rumors and speculation. (http://www.imore.com/history-iphone-original)
