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The Beginning
The Advanced Research Projects Agency is founded, which would become the cradle of connectivity. -
Paul Baron and development
Packet Switching is developed which would later become one of the internets building blocks -
Birth of the Arpanet
The Early concept of building a network where one terminal connects to all other terminals begins to develop. -
Interface message processors are founded
IMP's are founded and given an important role. As more focus is drawn to creating more IMP's, the faster the development of what would be known as the early internet. -
BBN Delivery
The BBN team delievered their prototype I.M.P to U.C.L.A. -
Infant Internet
Leonard Klienrock talks to an SRI host to host. This is considered to be the first breath of the internet. -
Coming out party
Arpanent system has its coming out party at the I.C.C.C. meeting at the Washingotn Hiltoin. -
Transmission Control Protocol
Founded by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf as a way of interconnecting networks in a faster more effective way. -
Personal Computer
Apple Inc. develops that Apple 2, one of the first personal computers which would later lead to multiple computer designers such as IBM. -
Steve Case
Hired by Control Video to develop what would later become email services. A large stepping stone for personal computers. -
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
IRC was developed in 1988 and used for file and link sharing - generally to keep in touch. -
Six Degrees
Six degrees was the first modern social network; it was the first site to allow users to create a profiule and to become friends and connect with others online. -
LiveJournal
Hence the word "Journal" in the name, it allowed users to share, edit, and create blogs. The site encouraged users to follow one another and create groups to interact. -
Wikipedia
Wkipedia is the world's largest online refernce site. It allows users to create and edit entries into the online encyclopedia. -
Friendster
Friendster was the very first modern, general social network. It is still very popular today. -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn allows users to create professional connections as well as create a professional profile for others to see. -
MySpace
MySpace was founded in 2003, but by 2006 had become the most popular social media site in the world. It was unique because it allowed users to have full customization of their profile. -
Care2
Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights, and animal welfare. -
The Launch of the FaceBook
TheFacebook launched in 2004. Facebook Platform was key to site’s success. The open API made it possible for third-party developers to create applications that work within Facebook itself. -
Bebo (Blog Early Blog Often)
Bebo website launched in 2005. The website was developed and launched during the days of MySpace and Hi5 when social networking was first taking root in the Internet community. -
Youtube
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Allowed users to upload their own video content. -
Twitter Fingers
Twitter an online social networking service that allows users to send and read short 140-character messages also known as "tweets". Twitter is one of the most popular social networks used today but it began as an micro-blogging platform created by programmers who worked at the podcasting company Odeo Inc. in San Francisco, California. -
Foursquare
Foursquare provides recommendations of the places to go around a user's current location.Foursquare featured a social networking layer that enabled a user to share their location with friends. -
Pinterest
Pinterest is basically a site that allows users to share photos and other digital content and "pin" it to their profile. -
Instagram (Doing it for the Gram)
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. The service enabled its users to take pictures and video content, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, also through a variety of other social networking sites. -
Google Plus
Google Plus lets users create connections and interactions with your circles, personalized friend groups. -
Snapchat
Snapchat allows user to send ''snaps'' to friends, which are one to ten second pictures with captions.
