1971- The first form of electronic mail is developed by Ray Tomlinson; he is a Cambridge Computer Scientist. He decided to use the @ in order to distinguish the difference between the sender's name and the network name in the email address.
1973- Bob Metcalfe creates the Ethernet cable in order to connect computers together over quite a large distance.
1974- A commercial version of ARPANET, also known as Telenet became the first Internet Service Provider.
1975- Microsoft is created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen after they read an article about the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Gates and Allen then got in touch with MITS, which was an American electronics company,and offered their services to write a new version of the new BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language. Microsoft's Website
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| The Altair 8800 microcomputer |
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| Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
The first Apple computer would then be released in April 1976, it was hand built by Steve Wozniak and the idea for sale came from Steve Jobs. Apple's Website
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| Apple's first creation, the Apple 1 |
1989- First commercial Internet Service Provider in the US known as 'The World' was the first Internet Service Provider to be used on what we know today as the Internet.
1985- Windows 1.01 was created.
1990- Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which is used to create page son the World Wide Web.
1991- Tim Berners-Lee introduces the World Wide Web to the public. There have been many people that have helped the Internet become what it is today, but without the World Wide Web this would not be possible.
1993- Mosaic s the world's first graphical World Wide Web browser, developed and released by the NCSA with the help of Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. The internet browsers we use today like Internet Explorer, Chrome ns Firefox got their inspiration from Mosaic.
1994- The Whitehouse launches its website. Their Website
1994- Amazon is founded by Jeff Bezos, it first started as an internet bookstore and then it eventually started to sell DVD's and CD's.
1994- Yahoo is founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, it was well known for being a web portal and its emailing service.
1995- Java and JavaScript are developed and released. Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. It is believed that Java is a key software to help us create internet applications and software programmes.
1995- eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar and it soon became one of the largest online auction sites in the world.
1996- Approximately 45 million people are using the internet, with roughly 30 million of those in North America, 9 million in Europe and 6 million in Asia/Pacific.
1997- Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars.
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| Images from the Mars Pathfinder |
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| Images form the Mars Pathfinder |
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| Images from the Mars Pathfinder |
1998- Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were studying for their Ph.D's at Stanford University
1999- College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster which started out as a website which allowed people to swap music online.
1999- The number of internet users worldwide reaches 150 million by the beginning of 1999.
2001- Napster gets sued as it is believed the company is violating copyright laws and is ordered to stop distributing music. As a result of this it changes to a subscription service.
2001- Wikipedia is created, it is a free online encyclopaedia that allows anyone to edit its articles.
2003- Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to purchase songs for 99 cents each.
2003- MySpace was launched after several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking feature. They then decided to mimic the popular features of the website, 10 days later the first version of MySpace was created.
2004- Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, it was originally limited to Harvard University but the site was soon expanded to other Universities around the Boston area and Stanford before it went global.
2005- Youtube is launched by three PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The first video published on Youtube was titled 'Me at the zoo' and it was a video of Jawid Karim at San Diego Zoo.
2006- There are more than 92 million websites online.
2006- Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Dorsey tweeted the first message saying 'just setting up my twittr' and soon after it became one of the biggest social media sites f the modern day.
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| First ever tweet |
2007- Tumblr is founded by David Karp it is a microblogging and social networking site. Tumblr was created as Karp was interested in a site called tumblelogs, and was waiting for an already established blogging website to incorporate tumblelogs into it as it was a more fun way of blogging. After a year of waiting no one had done it so Karp and developer Marco Arment began working on their own platform and then Tumblr was created.
2007- Apple releases the first iPhone in the US and it was the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple. It was unveiled by Steve Jobs on the 29th June 2007.
2008- Facebook becomes the most popular social networking site, taking the top spot from MySpace which was number one since 2006.
2008- The app store opens via iTunes.
2009- When Michael Jackson dies Twitter servers crash as users send 100,000 Tweets per hour.
2010- Instagram is launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on iOS as a free mobile app where you can share photographs
2011- Snapchat is launched by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown who were students at Stanford University, it was originally called Pictaboo, but after fights happened within the group of friends they changed the name to Snapchat.
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I think that we have sen an exponential growth in relation to the internet and social media in particular. Participatory media has been enabled through the development of Web 2.0 and to the traditional media terms of producer and consumer we can add 'prosumer' as we are now all able to produce as well as consume media.