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WAN
The first known WAN was created by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system. An enormous network of dedicated phone lines, telephones, and modems linked the sites together. -
The creation of ARPA
Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. -
The first packet switching
Packet switching was invented independently by Paul Baran and Donald Davies in the early and mid 1960s and then developed by a series of scientists and engineers in the late 1960s and 1970s. Their approach to data communication revolutionized the way that digital information is sent along telecommunication lines. -
Modem
The first modem to be made commercially available in the United States was the Bell 103 modem, introduced in 1962 by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). The Bell 103 permitted full-duplex data transmission over conventional telephone circuits at data rates up to 300 bits per second -
Interent
29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute. Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution -
The first virus
In the world of cybersecurity, the Creeper Virus holds a significant place in history as the first-ever computer virus to be created. Developed by Bob Thomas in 1971, this program, also known as the “Creeper Worm” or “Virus,” marked the beginning of a new era in the digital landscape. -
Apple
Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. -
IBM Personal computers
Debut. The IBM PC debuted on August 12, 1981, after a twelve-month development. Pricing started at $1,565 for a configuration with 16 KB RAM, Color Graphics Adapter, keyboard, and no disk drives. The price was designed to compete with comparable machines in the market. -
the first emoticon
Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982. -
The first worm
The Morris Worm was a self-replicating computer program (worm) written by Robert Tappan Morris, a student at Cornell University, and released from MIT on November 2, 1988. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. -
The Michelangelo virus
The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 3 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. -
Mosaic Browser
NCSA Mosaic ran on Windows computers, was easy to use, and gave anyone with a PC access to early web pages, chat rooms, and image libraries. -
Yahoo
Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. -
Amazon and eBay
Amazon and eBay are both well-established and have been around since the mid-1990s. Amazon originally launched in July 1994 under the name Cadabra (it changed its trade name to Amazon in 1995), with eBay following suit shortly thereafter, in September 1995 -
Internet explorer
The first version of Internet Explorer was born in 1994 when Thomas Reardon used source code from the Mosaic browser -
AOL Instants messenger
AOL Instant Messenger was finally launched in May of 1997. The platform was released quietly, but quickly garnered worldwide attention, with AIM becoming responsible for fifty-two percent of the online messaging market by the mid-2000s -
Google
Google is an American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Since 2015, Google has been a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet, Inc. -
iTunes
The iTunes media platform was first released by Apple in 2001 as a simple music player for Mac computers. Over time, iTunes developed into a sophisticated multimedia content manager, hardware synchronization manager and e-commerce platform. -
Safari
Safari was introduced in Mac OS X Panther in January 2003. It has been included with the iPhone since the first generation iPhone in 2007. At that time, Safari was the fastest browser on the Mac. Between 2007 and 2012, Apple maintained a Windows version, but abandoned it due to low market share. -
The first mobile's virus
In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the Symbian 60 OS. Written by members of an international group of virus writers, 29A, it was a proof-of-concept virus written in C++ using Symbian and Nokia's own SDK. -
FaceBook
Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, -
youtube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. -
The first iPhone
Apple's first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and it was released on June 29, 2007. Priced at $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB model, it was a revolutionary device. -
Pinterest and Instagram
Pinterest was launched by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp in 2010.Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social media application that was launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom. -
purchased of skype
On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, for US$8.5 billion. It was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which acquired all its technologies with the purchase.