New Media Timeline
(1989) — Aug 6th — birth of the web.
· Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web.
· AOL launched its instant messenger chat service and began by welcoming users with the iconic greeting “you’ve got mail!”
(1990) — Tim Berners-Lee continues his works and develops the first Web browser WorldWideWeb.
(1991) –researchers set up live camera footage of a coffee pot brewing and watched the live footage from their computer screens. Later this is connected to the World Wide Web and becomes the first webcam.
(1992) -The term “surfing the internet” becomes a well-known phrase amongst those using the internet.
· Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photo ever to be on the internet. The photograph is of band “Les Horribles Cernettes”.
(1993) — CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the world, this is now accessible to everyone.
· The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) — the first web browser to become popular with the general public
(1994) — One of the first known Web purchases took place: a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut.
· ‘Yahoo!’ is created by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The site was originally called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”
· Two lawyers post the first massive, commercial spam message with the subject “Green Card Lottery -Final One?”
(1995) — Amazon.com is now open for the public, billing itself as the “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.”
· Craig Newmark starts Craiglist, originally an email list of San Francisco events.
· Match.com is launched — the first online dating site.
· Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar launches eBay, which was originally named “AuctionWeb.” the first item listed for sale was a broken laser pointer. A collector purchases it for $14.83 (£10.45).
· Chris Lamprecht becomes the first person to be banned from the internet by judicial decree. “I told the judge computers were my life,” Lamprecht later recalled.
· Microsoft releases Windows 95 and the first version of Internet Explorer.
(1996) — Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 communicator, the first mobile phone with internet capabilities.
· HoTMaiL launches as one of the world’s first webmail services, its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.
· ‘the dancing baby’ — a 3D animation, becomes one of the first viral videos.
(1997) — the Jet Propulsion Lab allows people to watch the Sojourner rover landing and exploration of Mars. The broadcast generates about 40 million to 45 million hits each day.
· Netflix first launches as a company that sends DVDs to homes via mail.
· Google.com registers as a domain.
-Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet.
(1998) — AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers. AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members.
· The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over responsibility for the coordination of the global internet’s systems of unique identifiers.
(1999) — Pew Research Centre tests online polling with mixed results.
· MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files.
· ‘Yahoo!’ buys GeoCities for $3.6 billion.
(2000) — The NASDAQ hits a record high of 5,048, before plunging by 78% during the dot com bust. A 2001 survey finds 71% of Americans who had heard about the dot com troubles believe a major cause of the dot-com woes is that investors were eager to make a lot of money and took a lot of risks.
· AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion. New York Times says, “it could be the internet companies that do the buying and the old media that sell out.”
(2001) — The average internet user spends 83 minutes online.
-Apple revolutionises music listening by announcing its iPod MP3 music player.
· Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded and launched Wikipedia. Users write over 20,000 encyclopaedia entries in the first year.
(2002) — Social networking site Friendster.com launches, and is soon overtaken by Facebook.
· Microsoft launches Xbox Live, its online multiplayer gaming service.
(2003) — Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each. The store sells one million songs in its first week.
· Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches and quickly becomes a verb, as in “Skype me.”
· Professional networking site LinkedIn launches.
· MySpace.com is founded and quickly adopted by musicians seeking to share music and build their fan bases.
· President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act into law, establishing the first national standards for the sending of commercial email.
· WordPress blog publishing system created.
(2004) — Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches thefacebook.com. 1,200 Harvard students sign up within the first 24 hours. Facebook goes on to become the world’s biggest social networking site, with over a billion users worldwide.
· Google starts trading on the NASDAQ at $85 a share.
· Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0.
· Massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG) World of Warcraft launches.
(2005) — Broadband connections surpass dial-up connections.
· Community news site Reddit is founded. It is bought by Conde Nast a year later for $20 million.
· Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million and sells it in 2011 for $35 million.
· YouTube is founded on Valentine’s Day. The first video, an explanation of what’s cool about elephants, is uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23rd. Google buys the company a year later.
(2006) — The late Senator Ted Stevens describes the internet as “a series of tubes,” during a 2006 speech on net neutrality. His quote is mocked by Boing Boing and the Daily Show and inspires YouTube remixes.
· Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. YouTube founders Chad and Steve announce the Google acquisition in a video recorded in a parking lot: “The king of search and the king of video have gotten together.”
· Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.”
(2007) — Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.
-Apple releases its first touch screen iPhone, priced at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8G.
· Estonia becomes the world’s first country to use internet voting in a parliamentary election.
(2008) — Google releases the Chrome Web browser.
· HTML5 is introduced.
· Deal-of-the-day website Groupon launches.
· Apple launches its App Store with 552 applications.
· World of Warcraft hits 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Guinness Book of World Records names it the most popular MMORPG.
(2009) — Twitter raises $98 million from investors, valuing the company at a whopping $1 billion.
· The Web is transfixed by the tale of a six-year-old boy flying over Colorado in a weather balloon. The story later proves to be a hoax.
· Kanye West’s VMA outburst sparks an internet meme.
(2010) — Social photo-sharing sites Pinterest and Instagram launch.
· Wikileaks collaborates with major media organisations to release U.S. diplomatic cables.
- Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
- 3D TV starts to become more widely available.
· Ex-Facebook employees launch user-based question and answer site Quora.
(2011) — LinkedIn reaches 100 million users and debuts on NYSE.
· Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.
· Google+ launches.
· Young Egyptians use the hashtags #Egypt and #Jan25 on Twitter to spread the word about the Egyptian Revolution. The government responds by shutting down the internet.
· Rebecca Black’s “Friday” becomes a YouTube sensation.
(2012) — Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly active users, making it the dominant social network worldwide. Some analysts start calling it “Facebookistan.” The company buys Instagram for $1 billion and debuts on NASDAQ at $38 a share.
· South Korean music star PSY’s “Gangnam Style” video surpasses Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most viewed video ever, with over 800 million views.
· Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide.
· The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame to “celebrate people who bring the internet to life.”
(2013) — Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden turns over thousands of classified documents to media organizations, exposing a top-secret government data surveillance program.
· Apple says app store downloads top 40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012 alone.
· Twitter files for its long-awaited IPO. Shares soar 73% above their IPO price of $26 a share on the first day of trading.
-Elon Musk announces “hyperloop” — a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
(2014) — Facebook buys messaging app Whatsapp for $19 billion.
(2015) –Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users, outpacing Twitter, which would go on to reach 316 million users by the middle of the same year.
-Supercomputers (the world’s fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.
(2016) The number 1 Youtube video to go viral in 2016 — Adele singing on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”.
(2017) — Apple launched their new iphone X
- april 26- Instagram announced that it has added 100 million new users in the last four months alone, bringing the total Instagram user count to a whopping 700M.
- Quantum computing shows signs of becoming a practical technology.
- Instagram launches multiple photos in one post feature
- twitter increases tweet character count to 280.
- adobe spark is launched -With Adobe Spark, you can create beautiful graphics, web stories, and animated videos in minutes.
(2018) — instagram launches IGTV
- Computer generated users of social media begin to gain popularity. ‘Virtual influencer’ Lil Miquela reaches 1m followers in April.
- crypto anchors — Crypto anchors are digital footprints which can help companies, as well as ordinary consumers, check the product’s authenticity. they can help people to feel more secure about the product and not to spend their money in vain.
- Apple watch series 4 is introduced by Apple
- omron robots — these have been designed to dramatically increase productivity in manufacturing and logistics operations.
- Parker Solar Probe by NASA — Fastest spacecraft ever — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is officially the fastest thing ever made by humans, reaching a top speed of 430,000 miles per hour as it makes its 7-year mission in the sun’s outer corona.
(2019)- present
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