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2023 BCE
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning become integral to many online services, personalizing user experiences. -
2017 BCE
FACEBOOK
Facebook reaches 1.86 billion users, solidifying the dominance of social media in internet usage. -
2005 BCE
YouTube
YouTube is founded, becoming the leading platform for user-generated video content. -
2001 BCE
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is launched, creating the largest collaborative online encyclopedia. -
1998 BCE
Google
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, revolutionizing web search. -
1993 BCE
The Mosaic
web browser is released, popularizing the use of the World Wide Web and making it accessible to non-technical users. -
1989 BCE
Tim Berners-Lee
proposes the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN. He also creates the first web browser and server. -
1983 BCE
ARPANET adopts TCP/IP
standardizing the protocol for the entire network and laying the foundation for the modern internet. -
1971 BCE
Ray Tomlinson invents email
the first significant use of networked communication, choosing the "@" symbol to denote email addresses. -
1962 BCE
Paul Baran
conceptualizes packet switching, a method for breaking down messages into smaller packets before sending them. -
1960 BCE
1960s
The Beginnings