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History of the Internet

By jb975153

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    On October 4, 1957, the Sputnik 1 was launched form the USSR into this space. This caused the the USA to fear that Russia was more advanced then them, which sparked the advance of technology.

  • Royal Email

    Royal Email
    Queen Elizabeth 2nd sends out a email from the Royal Signals.

  • The World Wide Web is Created

    The World Wide Web is Created
    It starts as CERN which is European organization for nuclear research.

  • The First Browser

    The First Browser
    Tim Berners-Lee makes the worlds first ever web browser, it was called the World Wide Web (WWW).

  • Surfing the Internet and First Photo on Internet

    Surfing the Internet and First Photo on Internet
    Tim Berners-Lee posted the first photo of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes,” online, meanwhile the term "surfing the web" becomes a popular

  • Pizza Hut

    Pizza Hut
    The first known thing bought online was for Pizza Hut, which was a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese.

  • Yahoo

    Yahoo
    A website named Yahoo was created at Stanford by 2 students named Jerry Yang and David Filo.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    Jimmy Wales launched Wikipedia and within the first year, over 20,000 entries were recorded.

  • Xbox Live

    Xbox Live
    Microsoft a online gaming service called "Xbox Live", but people didn't like the idea because of how uncommon the broad band connections were then.

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube was created on Valentines day, the first video was made by one of the founders Jawed Karim, he was talking about how cool elephants were and why.