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APRANET Becomes Online
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was the predecessor of the internet. It allowed computers across the country to connect on a single network. Its purpose was for communication within government agencies and universities -
IBM Administrative Terminal System Started Out
The IBM System/360 (S/360) was a family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applications, small or larger. Many models were made, but the most successful was the Model 67. IBM stopped marketing all System/360 models by the end of 1977 -
A New Division of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing (Computational Sciences)
Applied science, using what we already know to help solve problems and make life easier, is the gist of this newer science division. By using technology, they were able to stretch the capabilities of what computers can, well, compute! Coding languages fed into computers to be trained to receive commands and perform actions was a new and, honestly, frightening ability when it first started to evolve -
".com" is Seen for the First Time
The first .com domain was registered to a computer company called Symbolics, making "Symbolics.com" The website has now become a sort of online museum dedicated to how far the internet has come. -
The World Wide Web Makes its Way
Proposed by Tim-Berners Lee to find a better way for scientists to share day, the World Wide Web is a collection of web pages that can be accessed the internet, a network of computers. He also wrote URL, HTML, and HTTP. It was in 1991 where he published the first web-page which ended up being instructions on how to use the internet -
The First Webcam Works
The first live stream, even! Researchers at the University of Cambridge wanted a way to monitor whether or not the community coffeepot was full, so they rigged up a camera to do it. It would take three live images of the pot every minute to be sent to a shared server for all the researchers. By 1993, when www began connecting many people across the globe, more than 2 million people watched. The stream was shut down in 2001. -
AOL Mailed the Internet to Homes
To get the people hooked on the internet, America Online began to print millions of CDs of internet trials that could allow people to go online for many, many hours without cost. They would be included with purchases at Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, and even with cereal boxes!. It helped the company have over 25 million users within a decade. -
Yahoo! Happened
Two electrical engineering students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, created a web directory first named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web." Later, they called it "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle (YAHOO)" Yahoo's sites used to be the most popular before Google today. -
Hotmail's Initial Spark
Called the first free web-based email, Hotmail let people get the chance to access their inboxes wherever they are. In 2010, Hotmail rebranded as Outlook.com by Microsoft -
Wi-Fi for the Win
The introduction to Wi-Fi let people use the world wide web without the disturbance of cables. The technology ley radio waves of data to be exchanged between digital devices. It was Apple that made it extra popular in 1999) -
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Era of New Medias that Allowed Technology to Evolve Even Further
From here, a lot of new apps, softwares, and browsers started to emerge as the internet became more accessible and easy to make things with. As people learned, they were able to make technologies that were like updated versions of the ones before, like the first stream of the coffee pot to Netflix being able to let users stream from wherever they are. -
Napstar Got Popping
Sean Fanning and Sean Parker create Napstar, a software that lets users share digital audio files for free. Sure, the company was eventually done in after many lawsuits and copyright issues, but it was nonetheless popular. Napstar, after all this, offered a blueprint for storefronts like iTunes and Google Music. -
Wikipedia Started Collaborating
Wikipedia became a free online encyclopaedia for all of us who need to cram before big tests or argue about something a person's wrong (or right) about. Users could edit and add their own revisions on pages without worrying too much about hard fact-checking. Great for icebreakers! -
Facebook Opens Up
Thefacebook, first an online directory specifically for Harvard students quickly became one of the most recognizable social networks in the world. Mark Zuckerburg not only has connected the world (and reunite old highschool buddies) but also is a medium that bred harmful opinions and ideals regarding politics, societies, hate groups, etc. -
Google! gets Counted In
Sure, other search engines came before, but Google! has lasted throughout it all. They created a company for mapping technology, email systems, music services, streaming platform, and much more. This just shows how far technology had come in a matter of years! -
YouTube goes "Viral"
Ex-Paypal employees including Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, made the service for users to upload moments to spread across the globe, such as the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show that started this all. Best part--it was free! -
The First Viral Video Sets Standards
One of the first viral vids ever, by Liam Kyle Sullivan titled "Shoes", is about a young, relatable girl named Kelly (played by him) in search for footwear. It's like today; relatable everyday things are depicted in the most viewed videos (other than music) -
First Tweet is Chirped
Twttr, first a prototyped in March of 2006 by Jack Dorsey and his first tweet. Today, it's used to view events, posts, and opinions quickly and on-the-go (whilst eliminating the need to think before speaking). The whole thing was made public in 2013, though. -
Netflix starts Streaming
Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings first started out Netflix as a small, mail-based TV and movie sharing rental service of DVDs in 1997. Nowadays, since 2007, it as become more, by users having the ability to directly stream dramas, blockbuster movies, and documentaries. Netflix had come far -
Apple Drops the iPhone
The way we engage with the internet now has been transformed ever since the release of the first iPhone. One can call, talk, work, shop, calculate, and even have a portable flashlight thanks to this nifty invention. Who would've thought the tiny brick would become so dominating in every moment of our lives. -
Instagram is #It
Instagram become popular for the sole reason of being allowed to share photos (mostly of pets and food) without much details, unlike other platforms. It's initial simplicity and addicting design really grabbed adults and teens alike in a chokehold, even today. This goes to show how technology has evolved to infiltrate a person on a psychological level. -
People lose their Minds Over... a Dress?
Everyone on social media, saw a photo of a dress that could either be blue and black or white and gold, based on a physiological phenomenon. It all started when a mother posted a dress she was planning to wear to her daughter's wedding. The participants soon started arguments regarding something simple, yet trivial: the colour of the dress. Buzzfeed + Tumblr were really responsible for spreading the word of this. There's a long reason, but the dress is blue and black... The internet gets crazier -
Pokémon GO(es) Places
Augmented reality was a new and huge deal when Pokémon GO debuted. Like Pac-Man for the earlier generation, the game became an obsession for mobile-users and giving them a great excuse to go outside and touch some grass. Fans could even share experiences by coming together for in-game events and "gym locations"