Google The world’s most popular search engine was invented in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a garage in Menlo Park, California.
Facebook This social networking site was created in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.
International ARPAnet In 1973, the first international connection linked London to the ARPAnet at UCLA via Kjeller, Norway, and Virginia. Kjeller
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Cambridge
Twitter This “microblog” site lets users post short messages, or tweets, for anyone to read. The first tweet, by site creator Jack Dorsey in 2006, read “just setting up my twttr.”
London BBN and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Stanford University and Menlo Park, California Virginia UCLA, Los Angeles
ARPAnet The first message on the ARPAnet was sent from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) to Stanford University, in 1969. The system was set up and used by universities and government departments.
The internet 1969– present
The internet is a vast network that allows computers (including phones, tablets, and other mobile devices) to share information. This idea was first suggested in 1962 and called the “Intergalactic Computer Network,” but the first actual network, called ARPAnet, was set up in 1969. This became part of the internet in 1983.
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Webcam
In 1991, the first online video camera was used in the computer science lab at Cambridge University, UK, to check if there was coffee left in the pot.
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The first email was devised and sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 at the technology company BBN.
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World Wide Web Invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, the “Web” went global in 1991.
KEY The shading shows when 25 percent or more of a country’s population is connected to the internet. 1998 or before 1999–2000 2001–02 2003–04 2005–06 2007–08 2009–10 2011–12 Under 25 percent No data First international ARPAnet connection
THE FIRST MESSAGE EVER SENT OVER THE ARPANET WAS “LOGIN.”
