History of the Internet

First message sent through ARPANET

Oct 29, 1969

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm on 29 October 1969, from Boelter Hall 3420. Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message was suppose to be "login" but the system crashed and only sent "lo." An hour later the full message eventually came through.

Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I.

Apr 1, 1975

http://www.apple-history.com/ai ; http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
The Apple I was Steven Wozniak's first contribution to the personal computer field, which he designed over a period of years. Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It was first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club and went on sale in July 1976, priced at $666.66 ($2,763 in 2014 dollars). Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips), which is less than what is today considered a complete PC.

Email for Universities and Government only!!

Period: Jul 1, 1975 to Jul 1, 1990

http://education.illinois.edu/wp/commercialism/history-of-the-internet.htm; http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/57.htm 1975 there were 63 sites. In 1980, 200 host computers were connecting 20,000 people at university, military, and government locations. The Internet community was dominated by universities and military research sites. It's most popular service was the rapid email it made possible with distant colleagues. In August 1983, there were 562 registered ARPANET hosts. In 1988, we saw the first authorized use of commercial email on the Internet. The Internet was initially funded by the government,

IBM introduced the PC

Aug 21, 1981

http://www.03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html; http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
Before IBM PC, there were other personal computersthey were do-it yourself kits and not a complete computer. The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. Price tag of $1,565. Two decades earlier, an IBM computer often cost as much as $9 million and required an air-conditioned quarter-acre of space and a staff of 60 ppl.

World Wide Web open to the public

Aug 6, 1991

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt
**Original transmission/and proof WWW of Berners documented words that www was ready for access by public- Notice date- Aug. 6th,1991.
Internet (www) was developed in the CERN laboratories (Enquire / EV project) in Switzerland during 1989 - 1990. Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

Yahoo! Directory goes online!

Jan 18, 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Early_history_.281994.E2.80.931996.29 Like " Google", Yahoo! was created at Stanford University. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. They were both Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!"The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995.

Google Goes Online.

Sep 4, 1998

https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company
http://www.google.com/about/company/history Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, "Google" was originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com is registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.

YouTube was founded.

Feb 14, 2005

http://www.dayintechhistory.com/dith/february-14-2005-youtube-founded
https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/ YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. It was sold to Google in 2006. It allows billions of ppl to discover, watch and share originally-created videos, also provides a forum for ppl to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertise.

Tweet Tweet!

Mar 21, 2006

http://www.internetlivestats.com/twitter-statistics
https://www.about.twitter.com/milestones At 12:50 PM, on March 6, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted the first "tweet" to Twitter. It read, "just setting up my twttr".

Almost 200 million users worldwide. About 460,000 new Twitter accounts are opened daily.
More than 140 million tweets are sent daily. That's one billion weekly.

First Kindle Released by Amazon

Nov 19, 2007

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#First_generation
http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=351 Amazon released the Kindle, the first generation Kindle device on November 19, 2007, for $399. It sold out in five and a half hours. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008.

The Beginning of Instagram!

Oct 6, 2010

http://www.sourcedigit.com/4023-instagram-timeline-history ; http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012.