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Launch of Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artifical satalite to be launched by Russia in 1957. The president at the time was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Americans were scared by the Russians launching Sputnik. <a href='http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/' target="_blank">Nasa</a> -
Creation of Arpa
Advanced Research Projects Agency or Arpa was created to catch up with Russians. It made research programs to catch up with the Russians. Changed to Defense Advanced Research Projects Angency on March 23, 1972 Darpa -
Bob Taylor's Idea
Bob Taylor worked at ARPA. The only thing that they had at the time was a large main frame computers at several Universities, not a computer network. His idea was to put all the computers together in one computer so then he wouldn't have to walk to the different computer to talk to the Universites. Internet was invented because Bob Taylor was lazy. Bob Taylor -
IMP
The IMP or Interface Message Processor was the fisrt messege sent over the internet such as email. IMP -
Packet Network/
This was the begining of world wide web. It was made so then if we were hit by a nucuelar bomb that the information sent though the internet would still get to the other side by finding a new route if the first one wasn't avalible. <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet' target="_blank">Packet Network</a> -
Ray Tomlinson's Creation
Ray Tominson's creation was first email. First Email -
WWW
Tim Burns-Lee created the World Wide Web 1989. His idea was based off the Packet Network. -
Web Broswer
Mark Andreeson invented the first web browser in 1993 onto the idea of WWW. -
Facebook
Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. -
Twitter
Twitter was created in 2006 by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone -
Instragram
Instragram was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
