Internet Timeline

By ailischlosser

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Founded by DARPA.

  • ethernet

    ethernet
    Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks, metropolitan area networks and wide area networks. Founded by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs.

  • Internet

    Internet
    a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.Founded by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf.

  • AOL

    AOL
    AOL is a web portal and online service provider based in New York. It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. Founded by Steve Case, William von Meister, Jim Kimsey, and Marc Seriff.

  • World-Wide-Web

    World-Wide-Web
    The World Wide Web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

  • Netscape

    Netscape
    Netscape is a brand name associated with the development of the Netscape web browser. It is now owned by Oath, Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon. Founded by James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen.

  • Amazon

    Amazon
    an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington and was founded by Jeff Bezos.

  • Lycos

    Lycos
    a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Founded by Michael Loren Mauldin and Bob Davis.

  • YAHOO

    YAHOO
    a web services provider that is wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. Founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo.

  • eBay

    eBay
    a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.Founded by Pierre Omidyar.

  • Java

    Java
    Founded by James Gosling

  • Wifi

    Wifi
    a facility allowing computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the Internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area. Founded by John O'Sullivan, Diethelm Ostry, John Deane,Terence Percival, Graham Daniels.

  • Google

    Google
    an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

  • Fire Fox

    Fire Fox
    a free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. Founded by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt, and Blake Ross.

  • MySpace

    MySpace
    a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughe.

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Founded by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen.

  • Bing

    Bing
    a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. Who founded Steve Ballmer.

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly, or privately to pre-approved followers. Founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a shorter scale, GIFs and videos. Founded by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. Founded by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.

  • PIPA

    PIPA
    The Protect IP Act a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S.

  • SOPA

    SOPA
    The Stop Online Piracy Act was a controversial United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.

  • Google Assistant

    Google Assistant
    Google Assistant is a virtual personal assistant developed by Google that is primarily available on mobile and smart home devices. Unlike Google Now, the Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations. Founded by ‎Larry Page‎ and ‎Sergey Brin.

  • 3D Facetime

    3D Facetime
    You can Face time people and it is in 3D. You can see a perfect picture of the person. You can even touch each other as if they are in the same room.