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ARPA
The United States sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency in response to Soviet Russia's launch of Sputnik. -
Pocket Switching
Paul Baran, an electrical engineer, invented "pocket switching". It works by breaking data into chunks and reassembles it into its own area. -
Arpanet
Bob Taylor created Arpanet to connect multiple terminals to transfer data. -
IMP's
ARPA gave the job of building IMP's (interface message processors) to Bolt, Beranek & Newman. BBN is a technologies company that was founded in 1948. -
Internet
August of 1969 BBN delivered their prototype of a rocket to reach the moon and back, as a way to compete with Russia after their recent launch of Sputnik years earlier. Later in September the first IMP was connected to the first host and so the internet was born. -
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford University Research Institute got its first IMP and the first communication was sent and received on the internet -
ICCC
This is the date of the first International Conference on Computer Communication in Washington that demonstrates the use of Arpanet -
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol was designed to interconnect networks. This is a response to Louis Pouzin who created his own network in France called "Cyclades" -
Microsoft
The Microsoft Corporation was created -
Apple Computer Inc.
Apple Computer Inc. was founded in 1976. A year later Apple introduced the Apple 2. -
Spam
The very first spam was sent into the Arpanet system by Gary Thurek, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation. -
IBM
IBM was founded in 1911. In 1981 IBM introduced the IBM PC to compete with the Apple 2. -
"You've Got Mail!"
Controlled Video, an electronic-gaming service, coined the phrase "You've Got Mail" within their communication systems -
U.S. vs Poindexter
Under the Ronald Regan administration, his former national security advisor, John Poindexter, was on trial for the Iran-contra scandal. This case was the first to bring e-mail as evidence into the courtroom. -
Morris Worm
The first significant attack on the internet came from Cornell student, Robert Tappon Morris, called the Morris Worm. In U.S. vs Morris, Robert Morris was the first person indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. -
E-mail
IBM included the first modems into their PC's for inter communication to create e-mail. -
The World Wide Web
British scientists, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Caillian, introduced the World Wide Web. -
Early Smartphones
Smartphones were invented in 1992 but were called the Simon Personal Communicator. -
Mosaic
The launch of the first widely used internet browser Mosaic -
EarthLink
Sky Dayton founded EarthLink, one of the first internet-service providers. -
Netscape
Netscape Navigator was created. In 1995, a year later, it dominated the market. -
Amazon
Jeffery P Bezos created the online bookstore "Amazon.com". Its not like the Amazon that we know of today. -
eBay
Pierre Omidyar created eBay -
Craigslist
Craig Newman created Craigslist -
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs makes a return to Apple Inc. -
Google
Google the first search engine was created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. -
Elon Musk
At the age of 12, Elon Musk launched X.com which later merged into PayPal. -
The Dot-Com Craze
From 2000-2002 the NASDAQ Composite Index lost 78% of its value as a result of all the pre-speculation of the dot-com craze. Pets.com is an example of a company that was started and ended up bankrupt or went out of business within a few years. -
The Microsoft Case
In 2000, U.S. District Court Judge ruled Microsoft had illegally held a monopoly on Windows. Later in 2001 the ruling was upheld but Microsoft remained one company and was allowed to bundle Windows and Internet Explorer together, but they had to offer consumers to be able to choose between different browsers. -
Wikipedia
Online Wikipedia was created -
Ipod
In 2001 Apple came out with the ipod. It was the predicessor to the iphone and contained only downloadable music from the internet. -
911
As a result on the bombings on the World Trade Center in New York City, the internet became a source to track the event. This set the stage for the internet to be used as a vital outlet for news. -
Birth of Social Networking
John Abrams creates Friendster the very first social networking site on the internet. -
Linkedin
Linkedin was introduced to the internet -
Myspace
Myspace was launched -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes create Facebook. Later in 2006 it became open to the general public -
Youtube
Chad Hurley creates Youtube -
Facebook Booms!
Facebook becomes open to the general public and takes off in the economy. -
Twitter
The social media network Twitter is created -
Social Media in Politics
CNN and Youtube partner to create Youtube Debates, combining social media and politics. -
Google+
Google creates Google+ its own social network -
Iphone
In 2007 Steve Jobs introduced iphones to the market -
Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Airforce Cyber Command is created and its operation is to defend the nation from cyber attacks. -
Mobile Device Social Media
Snapchat and Instagram apps hit smartphones -
Virtual Reality in Social Media
Facebook aquires Oculus VR to expand social media into virtual reality
