The history of the internet

  • ARPANET is made.

    ARPANET is made.
    The original purpose was to share resources between computers.
    It was later turned over to the military.
  • ETHERNET is made.

    ETHERNET is made.
    It is able to transfer data between two devices. Internet goes through telephone wires to the ETHERNET wire.
  • Internet providers start up.

    Internet providers start up.
    It let the public use the internet.
  • World-Wide-Web or www.is.born.com

    World-Wide-Web or www.is.born.com
    WWW is a software that is used constently everyday. It helps the public search for anything they want.
  • Yahoo is coded.

    Yahoo is coded.
    It was intended to be used to direct users to other websites. It also let users search for spacific wedpages.
  • Amazon is delivered.

    Amazon is delivered.
    It first started out as an online bookstore. The company suffered many lawsuits from Barns and nobles and Walmart.
  • Google is made.

    Google is made.
    It replaced Yahoo as a search engine. It became the first text based search engine.
  • Myspace posted first!

    Myspace posted first!
    Was the first social networking site. It let people to chat with other people online.
  • iTunes is recorded.

    iTunes is recorded.
    It became one of the first programsthat let you listen to music. It aslso was the first to let you burn music to CDs and listen to them any time.
  • Skype is online.

    Skype is online.
    The software is used to video chat with anyone in the world. It was later bought by ebay.
  • Facebook.

    Facebook.
    Originally was for Harverd students to post to their professors. The idea was when the creator was "intoxicated" after his classes.
  • Mozilla Firefox.

    Mozilla Firefox.
    It was made to over take Internet Explorer. After a few months Firefox was updated every six weeks on Tuesdays.
  • YouTube is uploaded.

    YouTube is uploaded.
    It was used to upload videos. A year after it was released, it was the most popular website.
  • Twitter's first tweet.

    Twitter's first tweet.
    It let any user read tweets but only registered users can post. The domain name Twitter.com was already used, then this twitter bought the name.
  • New and shiny Google Chrome.

    New and shiny Google Chrome.
    It was made to get rid of Internet explorer because it had security issuses. Some of the staff were ex-programers from the other major internet softwares.