{"id":532,"date":"2014-11-29T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reubenointernet.com\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:54:22","slug":"internet-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reubenointernet.com\/index.php\/singaporean-aspiration\/little-red-dot\/internet-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1958\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The United States Department of Defence establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency in response to the Sputnik launch which heralded the era of global communication<\/p>\n<p><strong>1971<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First email is sent<\/p>\n<p><strong>1974\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The term Internet is coined<\/p>\n<p><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Internet connection in Asia is developed in Keio University in Japan<\/p>\n<p><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Domain Name System is invented<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>British engineer Tim Berners-Lee proposes what would become the World Wide Web in his paper &#8220;Information Management: A Proposal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1990\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Development begins for the first browser called &#8220;WorldWideWeb&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mosaic the first graphical brower is launched, helping to popularise the World Wide Web<\/p>\n<p><strong>1994\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Yahoo and Amazon.com are founded<\/p>\n<p><strong>1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 released<\/p>\n<p><strong>1998\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Google launches its search engine. Singaporean Tan Tin Wee founds multilingual domain name system<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Web 2.0 is coined as more websites start to allow users to post content<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The dot.com market peaks and crashes<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Wikipedia is born<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Facebook is born<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>First YouTube video is posted<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The first Tweet is sent. twitter founder Jack Dorsey writes: &#8220;Just setting up my twttr&#8221; (sic)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-grid\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterDev\/timelines\/539487832448843776\">National Park Tweets<\/a> <script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Instagram is launched<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gangnam Style becomes first YouTube video to reach 1 billion views<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>New generic top-level domain names such as .guru, .camera and . diamond are introduced<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ellen DeGeneres&#8217; selfie at the Academy Awards ceremony is re-tweeted 3.2 million times, and holds the record for most re-tweets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sources: INTERNET SOCIETY, BLOOMBERG, WORLD WIDE WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM, WORLD BANK, INTERNETHALLOFFAME.ORG<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notes: The above listing is a work in progress <span class=\"hw\">continuum<\/span><span class=\"hw\">.\u00a0 A recognition of human Ingenuity (and some, unsung heroes), quality of being clever, original, and inventive, in the process of applying ideas to solve problems or meet challenges. 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