Group Nine Project

Exclusive Use of E-mail

Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Jun 1, 1985

Length of time that only large universities and governments had access to e-mail.

Apple 1 Release

Apr 11, 1976

But at one meeting in 1975, a club member named Steve Wozniak set up a computer he had designed and built on his own. It had features that no one had ever seen before, features like a keyboard. You could type on it instead of having to flip toggle switches or deal with punch cards. It had a TV screen, not a paper tape or a printout. And it was what today we know as the Apple I, and it sparked a revolution in computing, starting to put the personal into personal computers.

PC Released

Aug 12, 1981

On August 12, 1981, at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom in New York City, Estridge announced the IBM Personal Computer with a price tag of $1,565.

World Wide Web Becomes Usable By General Public

Aug 6, 1991

Shaped into something more appropriate for mass consumption.

Yahoo Goes Online

Jan 1, 1994

States - Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University. March 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo!" August 1995: Launch of the Yahoo! commercial website that includes advertisements and news feeds from Reuters. January 1995: The yahoo.com domain was created. https://info.yahoo.com/about-us

Google Goes Online

Sep 15, 1997

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. Google.com is registered as a domain by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Youtube Founded

Feb 14, 2005

The site marked the May anniversary of its 2005 beta launch.

First Tweet Sent

Mar 21, 2006

Its first message, written by Dorsey, was “just setting up my twttr.”The first tweet was written by co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006.

Amazon Releases the First Kindle

Nov 19, 2007

In 2007, online retail giant Amazon.com (see entry under 2000s—Commerce in volume6 )launched its own e-reader, the Kindle.

Instagram Begins

Oct 6, 2010

Instagram launches on October 6, 2010.Krieger and Systrom launched Instagram in October of 2010 and had 25,000 users sign up on thefirst day.