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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network allowed computers to share information across other networks. -
A computer company called Symbolics from Massachusetts registered the first dot com domain name on March 15, 1985. According to Venture Beat, Symbolics.com established its presence in the market a year before HP, IBM, and two years before Apple made the decision to join the.com club. Almost 150 million.com domains have been registered online as of this writing. -
In 1991, Berners-Lee published the first-ever webpage, which was basically just filled with instructions on how to actually use the World Wide Web. -
In 1991, when a group of researchers working in the computer lab at the University of Cambridge wanted a hands-off way to keep track of whether or not the community coffeepot was full, they rigged up a camera to monitor it for them. -
First audio + video is popularized creating the phrase: "surfing the internet" -
To get the country hooked on the internet for life, executives at AOL knew they first had to offer a taste to let people know what they were missing. That's exactly why the company printed untold millions of internet trial CDs starting in 1993, allowing people to go online for hundreds or thousands of hours, free of charge. -
Jerry Yang and David Filo, two undergraduate electrical engineering students, produced a human-edited web directory in January 1994 that they initially called "Jerry and David's guide to the The World Wide Web. They cleverly changed its name to "Yahoo," which stands for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle," two months later, and a new way to browse the web was born. -
Match.com the first dating website was born.
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The words first emailing service was created. -
When Wi-Fi first became commercially available to consumers in 1997, it gave people a look at a world without pesky cables tethering them to their modems whenever they wanted to browse the web. -
Amazon, the first online shopping website launches. -
The music industry would never again be the same after Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker created Napster, the peer-to-peer internet software that allowed users to share digital audio files for free. -
On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia began as a free online encyclopedia for people looking to research new topics, cram before a big test, or just settle a bar bet. But the very same open-platform nature that allows the information to be accessible for all also means people can add their own revisions and edits to pages, without the rigorous fact-checking you get from a traditional encyclopedia. -
On February 4, 2004, Facebook debuted as Thefacebook, an online directory created by Mark Zuckerberg strictly for Harvard students that became the most powerful social network in the world. -
Google was created and became the most powerful search engine. -
Their goal was to allow people to capture and upload moments like that—we'd later call them "viral moments"—and spread them across the web for people to watch without needing a TV. -
Twitter would change the way we react to world events, both large and small, by enabling us to comment in real-time and eliminating our collective need to “think before we speak.” -
Netflix started offering a small selection of TV shows and movies online for its users to stream straight from their devices, in addition to the DVDs-by-mail rental service that first put the company on the map. -
Apple’s release of the first iPhone on June 29, 2007, more or less transformed the way we engage with the internet—and everyone else—overnight. -
Pinterest and Instagram are created now Instagram has over 1.44bil
