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History of the Internet
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USSR launches sputnik into space
The world's first artificial satellite. -
Bell Labs Invents Modem
converts digital signals to electrical (analog) signals and back, enabling communication between computers. -
U.S. Government Creates ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik launch -
Leonard Kleinrock
He developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet. -
First wide area net-work computer created
the set of wide area networks (WANs) and core routers that tie together all networks connected to the Internet. -
ARPANET
The first stable link between multiple computers through the ARPANET. -
File Transport Protocal (FTP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/ Internet Protocol (IP)
The creation of the first networking applications. -
Email is introduced
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email -
Ethernet
a system for connecting a number of computer systems to form a local area network -
The first emoticon is born
Professor Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who has been widely credited with the originating of the first smiley emoticon. -
Internet
a global system of interconnected computer networks -
World Wide Web
an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links -
Yahoo
an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories -
eBay
the world's online marketplace -
Google
search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google -
itunes
a media management software created by Apple, Inc.. You can use it to manage and play both audio and video files on your computer. -
Myspace
a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos -
Skype
have a spoken conversation with (someone) over the Internet using the software application Skype, frequently also viewing by webcam -
Facebook
an online social networking service -
Firefox
a Web browser that is smaller, faster, and in some ways more secure than the Mozilla browser -
youtube
a video-sharing website -
Twitter
an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets" -
Tumblr
microblogging platform and social networking website that allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog -
Google Chrome
a freeware web browser developed by Google -
Bing
web search engine from Microsoft -
Pinterest
a web and mobile application company, which operates an eponymous photo sharing website -
Instagram
an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos
