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The creation of ASCII
ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Exchange was created for machines to exchange data with manufacturers. -
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The Beginning of the Internet
In 1969, the foundation of the internet or the APARNET was created and became the structure for everything that we use to this day. -
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The Creation of Email
In 1965, The first example of email can be found at MIT in a program that was called "MAILBOX." People who used MIT computers would leave messages with MAILBOX on computers for other users to see when they logged onto the computer.
Then in 1971, Ray Tomlinson used the creation of ARPANET in order to create a networked email system. -
Creation of the APARNET
The APARNET or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was created by the United States Department of Defense. Its purpose was to link computers at the Pentagon over telephone lines. -
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Key Internet Protocols are Founded
Internet Protocols like Xerox PARC and IBM PC allowed for creations like Ethernet, GUI, and was the basis for the computer. -
The function of the @ symbol
Ray Tomlinson invented the email but questions were asked about how emails would be exactly sent to people. Ray Tomlinson then suggested that a destination for a message would be as simple as addressing it by: “username@name of computer." To this day, this is how emails are sent to other people. -
Birth of Microsoft
On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, formed a parternship with IBM to make what we now know as Microsoft. Microsoft ended up bundling with the IBM PCs that were created, and Microsoft ended up being paid a royalty for each sale made. -
IBM PCs
In September of 1975, IBM or the International Business Machines Corporation released the IBM 5100 Portable Computer. With the computer weighting about 50 pounds, the 5100 desktop computer was comparable to the IBM 1130 in storage capacity and performance but almost as small and easy to use as an IBM Selectric Typewriter. -
Foundation of Apple Computer
One of the biggest computers to this day, Apple Computers, was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple was made with the intent of making computers meant for one person, compared to companies like IBM where they focused on computers for corporations, governments, and universities. -
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The World Wide Web
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed and invented what we know as the World Wide Web to CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1991, The World Wide Web was officially launched for everyone to see and use. -
Creation of the NSFNET
The National Science Foundation Network was created with the purpose of linking its supercomputers to research agencies and universities. -
Internet Chat is created.
In 1988, technology made it possible to message people over the Internet using real-time technology in order to transmit messages from sender to receiver. Internet Chat became the structure for programs like AOL and eventually, the programs that we would use today like Skype and Discord. -
Proposal of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was proposed to CERN in 1989 by Tim-Berners Lee as an idea. -
Creation of HTML
Invented by Tim Berners-Lee, HTML or HyperText Market Language, was created to make pages which would become the foundation of the pages he would use for his next invention, the World Wide Web. -
The Launch of The World Wide Web
After a couple of years, the World Wide Web was officially launched for the public to use. -
The Creation of the First Internet Browser
In 1993, Mosaic was created with the intent of making the World Wide Web more popular in today's society. Mosaic became the first internet browser to be made in our world. -
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The Revolution of Internet Browsers
In 1993, Mosaic was created. Mosaic was the first internet browser to ever be created, and it revolutionized the World Wide Web and helped promote it into existence. A year later in January 1994, Yahoo was created, and four years after that, Google was born. -
Creation of Streaming
In 1997, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph created a streaming service, named Netflix, with the intent of allowing customers to watch a wide variety of TV shows, movies, and documentaries. Netflix became very popular and was the start of many more services on the internet that would be created. -
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The Creation of Well Known Websites
From 1997 onward, the Internet was used more so to provide websites used for entertainment. Web Browsers already made it simple to locate websites, so with the advancement of technology lead to an advancement of websites. -
Birth of Google
One of the most popular Internet Browsers, was invented in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, United States. The company known as Google LLC originally was going to name it, "BackRub" but they backed down and changed it to Google because of the number googolplex which drew inspiration for them to name their company google. -
The First Digital Distribution Platform
On September 12, 2003, Valve Corporation made a digital distribution platform known as Steam, with the intent of allowing consumers to purchase and play video games online. Steam offers digital rights management, matchmaking servers, video streaming, and social networking services. -
The First Mainstream Video Sharing Site
In 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created a site with the intent of allowing people to share videos with each other. This would become YouTube where 300 hours of video footage are uploaded every minute, and 5 billion videos being watched everyday.
