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Sputnik launched
The Soviet Union launches the world's first satellite. It orbited Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. This event led up to the development of ARPANET. -
ARPANET
ARPANET sent its first message, but was only able to send the letters "l" and "o". UCLA was the sender and Stanford was the receiver. -
First Email
Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. He sent it to himself from one machine to the other and says the first message was probably something like "QWERTYIOP". -
ARPANET goes international
In the summer of 1973, NORSAR in Norway and the University College of London in England made their first connections. UCL was connected to the node in Kjller, Norway and the node in Norway was connected to the Seismic Data Analysis Center in Virginia. -
Apple 2 PC
The first usable was unvelied at the West Coast Computer Faire. The creators were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. -
First Domain Name
The first ever domain name registered was Symbolics.com for Symbolics Inc. It was a computer systems company in Casmbridge, Massachusetts. -
NSFNET goes online
The National Science Foundation Network was a network that connected supercomputers. The network gave researchers from universities or colleges access to the National Science Foundation's supercomputers. -
World Wide Web released to public
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a short summary about the World Wide Web on alt.hypertext newsgroup. After that, it was available for the public to use. -
Mosaic is designed
Mosaic was designed at the University of Illinois by graduate students. It was the first point-and-click browser and later developed into Netscape Navigaotr. -
Google starts
Google is a technology company that focuses on internet-related services and products. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. -
Napster released
Napster, the first music sharing service, was created by Shawn Fanning, John fanning, and Sean Parker. It's a program that allows file sharing between computers. It operated from June 1999 to July 2001. -
Facebook released
Facebook is a social networking site that was originally made for college students. After it had extended to US universities and high schools, it began to spread worldwide. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg. -
Youtube released
Youtube is a video-sharing website that can be accessed by the public. It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. -
Twitter released
Twitter is a social networking site. You can send "tweets" but the tweets must have a maximum of 140 characters. The founders of twitter are Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone. -
First iPhone
The iPhone's capabilities were introduced on June 11, 2007 at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. During press time, the iPhone sold 1.4 million units. The list of people who created the first iPhone is extensive but among them is the late Steve Jobs.
