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Arpanet
The launch of The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network whose main use was to share information for academic and research purposes. -
The first email
The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself. Began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange messages. -
Maze War
Maze Run is the first 3D multiplayer first-person shooter online game. -
Spam Email
Gary Thuerk, the "father of spam," sent out the first unsolicited email to about 400 people to promote Digital Equipment Company's new product -
First domain name
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. Now it serves as a historic site.
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Invention of the GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite -
First search engine
Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. By Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. -
World Wide Web
The first website was dedicated to information about the World Wide Web.
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First ever picture uploaded to the internet
Was posted by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on behalf of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. -
First Banner Ad Post
An interactive agency named Modem Media worked together with AT&T to create an ad that was hosted on Hotwired.com
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The first smartphone
The IBM Simon was an analog cellular phone but had email, calendar, and fax functions. The touch screen user interface even included predictive text. -
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Facebook
An American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. -
Broadband
Telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission that transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types. -
Youtube
American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is currently owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search.
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First youtube video
The video was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. -
Twitter
A microblogging and social networking service -
First Tweet
The first ever tweet was written by co-founder Jack Dorsey. -
iPhone created
The iPhone is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. -
Internet in space
NASA tests Internet in space via DTN software -
Bitcoin created
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain -
First Transaction using Bitcoin
A man in Flordia, USA bought two pizzas from Papa John's for 10,000 BTC -
Instagram
Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service -
Vine
An American short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. -
Tik Tok
Hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.