U2A9 Evolution of the Internet Timeline

By mellovae
  • Who created first wide-area network (WAN)?

    Who created first wide-area network (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.
  • Who created Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and when?

    Who created Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and when?

    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.
  • What pioneer is responsible for packet-switching concept?

    What pioneer is responsible for packet-switching concept?

    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
  • When was the modem invented and by whom?

    When was the modem invented and by whom?

    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
  • What was the first virus? When was it created?

    What was the first virus? When was it created?

    As noted by Discovery, the Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN.
  • When was Apple founded?

    When was Apple founded?

    April 1, 1976, Los Altos, CA
  • When does IBM launch the personal computer

    When does IBM launch the personal computer

    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.
  • Who used the first emoticon

    Who used the first emoticon

    Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982.
  • When was the first worm created and what was the name?

    When was the first worm created and what was the name?

    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.
  • What year was the Internet invented? By whom?

    What year was the Internet invented? By whom?

    Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of a 'web of information' in 1989. It relied on 'hyperlinks' to connect documents together
  • Who introduces the World Wide Web by whom?

    Who introduces the World Wide Web by whom?

    Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.
  • Amazon and eBay was founded when?

    Amazon and eBay was founded when?

    Ebay 1995 September 3 Amazon July 5 1994
  • When was the Michelangelo virus created?

    When was the Michelangelo virus created?

    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.When was the Michelangelo virus created?
  • When was the Mosaic web browser launched?

    When was the Mosaic web browser launched?

    Mosaic, the first web browser to win over the Net masses, was released in 1993 and made freely accessible to the public. The adjective phenomenal, so often overused in this industry, is genuinely applicable to the... 'explosion' in the growth of the web after Mosaic appeared on the scene.
  • When was Yahoo founded?

    When was Yahoo founded?

    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.
  • When was Internet Explorer launched? By whom?

    When was Internet Explorer launched? By whom?

    1995 by Microsoft
  • When was Google founded?

    When was Google founded?

    September 4, 1998
  • When does AOL launch instant messenger?

    When does AOL launch instant messenger?

    AOL Instant Messenger was finally launched in May of 1997 (Bowman, 2017). 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 (Panko, 2017)
  • What was the first mobile virus and when was it created?

    What was the first mobile virus and when was it created?

    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.
  • When was Facebook launched? By whom?

    When was Facebook launched? By whom?

    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, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
  • When was YouTube launched and by whom?

    When was YouTube launched and by whom?

    February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search
  • When does Apple launch the iPhone?

    When does Apple launch the iPhone?

    June 29, 2007
  • When was Instagram and Pinterest launched?

    When was Instagram and Pinterest launched?

    Pinterest October 2012 and Instagram October 6 2010
  • Who bought Skype and when?

    Who bought Skype and when?

    Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S. à r.l for US$8.5 billion. It was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which acquired all its technologies with the purchase.
  • When did Apple launch iTunes and Safari browsers?

    When did Apple launch iTunes and Safari browsers?

    September 12, 2022