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Claude Chappe creates the visual telegraph
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Electric telegraph was invented
Invented by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone -
First submarine telegraph in the English Channel
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First transatlantic telegraph cable was laid
Cyrus West Field's idea to connect the networks in Europe and America. -
ARPA is created
It was created to keep the US a step ahead of the Soviets -
ARPAnet is created
Joseph Licklider convinced ARPA to fund research looking into connecting smart minds everywhere -
Email is invented
by 1973, emails made up more than three quarters of ARPAnets packets -
TCP/IP is created
Standard way of formatting packets and we still use it today -
DNS is created
Gets us to the websites we want to get to; still used today -
American Online (AOL) is founded
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NSFNET replaces ARPAnet as the backbone of the internet
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World Wide Web becomes public
It uses hypertext -
GeoCities is started
Started by David Bohnett and John Rezner, it was the first site to allow users to also be creators and vice versa -
NSFNET shuts down for good and hands everything over to ISPs
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Companies invested in websites and went bankrupt
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Yahoo! bought GeoCities - shut it down in the US a year later
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Friendster is founded - then shut down
Was rebranded in 2011, but it wasn't enough to save it -
MySpace is launched
Is still active, but isn't at all what it used to be -
LinkedIn is created
Only business networking tool -
FaceBook is launched
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Broad band becomes the way people go online
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YouTube launches
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Reddit launches
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Twitter launches
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Tumblr launches
More popular with younger demographics and fandoms -
Pinterest launches
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Instagram launches
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Keek launches
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Snapchat launches
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Facebook buys Instagram
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Twitter buys Vine pre-launch
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Vine launches
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Msuical.ly launches
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Discord launches
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TikTok launches in the U.S,
Wasn't it originally Music.ly? That is not mentioned lol -
TikTok and Musical.ly merge
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BeReal launches