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History of Internet

  • ARPANET first established

    One of the world's first operational packet switching networks, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and was the main progenitor of what was to become the global Internet.
  • World Wide Web is born

    World Wide Web is born
    global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. Tim Burners Lee.
  • mp3 becomes a standard

    mp3 becomes a standard
    Publicly shared. Common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage
  • First Webcam (Trojan Room coffee pot)

  • Mosaic (First Graphical Browser)

    Mosaic (First Graphical Browser)
  • Yahoo First Created

    Yahoo First Created
    Started at Stanford University. Jerry Yang and David Filo.
  • Amazon first Created

    Amazon first Created
    American electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
  • Ebay First Created

    Ebay First Created
    Pierre Omidyar's San Jose
  • Weblog term emerges

    Weblog term emerges
    Discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order
  • Google First Created

    Google First Created
    Multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products
  • dot.com bubble bursts

    dot.com bubble bursts
    Internet bubble. new Internet-based companies
  • Wikipedia First Created

    Wikipedia First Created
    Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia.
  • Skype first Created

    Skype first Created
    Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. Telecommunications application software that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls from computers, tablets and mobile devices via the Internet to other devices or telephones/smartphones.
  • Youtube first created

    Youtube first created
    video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.