Year 1962 JCR Licklider introduced the idea of networking computers globally. He served as head of DARA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
Year 1974 Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn used the term Internet first time in transmission control protocol paper.
Year 1976 Ethernet cable was invented by Robert Metcalfe. This lead to quick transfer of data.
Year 1978 Gary Thuerk was the first person to send spam mail to 400 users of ARPANET to advertise his mini computers.
Year 1992 CREN – Corporation of Research and Educational Networking released the World Wide Web.
Year 1994 Pizza Hut was the first to offer online ordering through website.
Year 1995 Pierre Omidyar released an Auction Website which later became EBay.
Year 1996 Hotmail was launched and following year Mircrosoft bought it.
1998 Google gotsits funding from Sunmicro system – from Andy Bechtolsheim. Which later became Google Technology Incorporated.
Year 1999 Wifi which we all love it all time was standardized, also the same year Napster was launched.
Year 2001 Wikipedia was launched breaking the .com trend to .org.
Year 2003 Apple launched Itune website with 200K songs. With 24 hours they sold more than a million songs.
Year 2004 Google launched Gmail with a free space of 1GB compare to Yahoo 4MB and Hotmail 2MB space. This was very muck like prank to many of the user initially.
Year 2005 Youtube was launched. Google bought it following year at $1.6 Billion.
Year 2006 2 big giants launched themselves Twitter and Facebook. Facebook become public which was before exclusively for colleges only.
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