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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 was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself. Began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange messages. -
Maze Run is the first 3D multiplayer first-person shooter online game. -
Gary Thuerk, the "father of spam," sent out the first unsolicited email to about 400 people to promote Digital Equipment Company's new product -
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. Now it serves as a historic site.
Symbolics -
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 -
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. -
The first website was dedicated to information about the World Wide Web.
the World Wide Web -
Was posted by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on behalf of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. -
An interactive agency named Modem Media worked together with AT&T to create an ad that was hosted on Hotwired.com
Hotwired -
The IBM Simon was an analog cellular phone but had email, calendar, and fax functions. The touch screen user interface even included predictive text. -
Javascript web language allows online advertisers to create pop-up ads.
JavaScript -
An American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. -
Telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission that transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types. -
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.
YouTube -
The video was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. -
A microblogging and social networking service -
The first ever tweet was written by co-founder Jack Dorsey. -
The iPhone is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. -
NASA tests Internet in space via DTN software -
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 -
A man in Flordia, USA bought two pizzas from Papa John's for 10,000 BTC -
Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service -
An American short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. -
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.