timeline project
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Updated: 2 Oct 2018
Landon Helm
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Created byLahna M Helm
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1964 Paul Baran invented “packet switching”1969 DARPA invented the ARPANET network.1971 Ray Tomlinson invented email1972 The first computer-to-computer chat took place1973 The Network Voice Protocol was invented1974 Steve Walker invented the first mailing list that allowed many people get the same mail message1979 The idea of using symbols -) came from Kevin Mackenzie1981 The first virus made the ARPANET stop working!1983 The DNS or Domain Name System is invented.1988 Jarkko Oikarinen invented internet-relay-chat (IRC)1989 Tim Berners-Lee was the inventor of the World Wide We1990 Alan Emtage invented Archie1992 Jean Armour Polly was the first to coin the term “surfing the Internet.”1993 The first Multicast Backbone (MBONE); audio and video broadcasted to multiple computers simultaneously occurred1993 The first web browser is created and it is named Mosaic1993 The CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due1994 The first Internet banner ad is on hotwired.com. It is for AT&T1995 Sun Microsystems invents JAVA1995 AuctionWeb makes it first sale1997 The term web log is coined by Jorn Barger, which is later shortened to a blog.1998 PayPal was invented1999 RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) was used for the first time1999 The release of Napster, a file sharing system, makes P2P popular2003 With the launch of the iTunes Store, people could purchase and download music legally2004 The word podcast is first used to describe an Internet audio or video broadcast2004 Facebook is created2005 Youtube is created2006 The first “tweet” is sent2009 Groupon offered its first group coupon for pizza
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