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| History : Internet - 1969 |
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Due to Leonard Kleinrock's early development of packet switching theory, his Network Measurement
Center at UCLA was selected to be the first node on the ARPANET. Stanford Research Institute
provided a second node. Two more nodes were added at UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah.
By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and
the Internet was off the ground.
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| History : Email - 1972 |
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In March of 1972 Ray Tomlinson at BBN wrote the basic email message send and read software, motivated by the
need of the ARPANET developers for an easy coordination mechanism. In July, Roberts expanded its
utility by writing the first email utility program to list, selectively read, file, forward, and
respond to messages. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP".
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| History : TCP/IP - 1973 |
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Bob Kahn (with the help of Vint Cerf) created Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Gateways and routers used to connect the networks, If a packet didn't make it to the final destination,
it would shortly be retransmitted from the source. One of the more interesting challenges was the transition
of the ARPANET host protocol from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983.
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| History : WWW - 1991 |
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Vannevar Bush first proposed the basics of hypertext in 1945. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web,
HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
in 1990.
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| History : Browser - 1994 |
December 15, 1994, Netscape launches Version 1.0 of its browser, Netscape Navigator.
February 1996, Netscape version 2.0 debuted. It incorporated JavaScript.
August 1996, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 3.0, a free browser that not only
was a technological match to Navigator but also was bundled with every new Windows PC.
March 1999, AOL acquired Netscape.
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| History : Macromedia - 1992 |
1992, Formed with the merger of Authorware Inc. and MacroMind-Paracomp.
1996, Launched Flash with acquisition of FutureWave Software.
1997, Launched Dreamweaver with acquisition of iBand Software.
2005, Acquired by Adobe in a stock swap valued at $3.4 billion.
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| History : Google - 1995 |
Summer 1995, Larry Page & Sergey Brin meet at Stanford.
August 1996, Released the first version of Google on the Stanford Web site.
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| History : MySpace - 2003 |
August 2003, Founded by Chris DeWolfe & Tom Anderson as a competitor to Friendster.
July 2005, MySpace is purchased for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
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| History : Youtube - 2005 |
May 2005, founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
October 2006, Google purchases Youtube for $1.65 billion.
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