La Historia de Internet (Infografía)

La empresa de software antivirus AVG, ha creado una Infografía con la Historia -resumida- del Internet, muestra las primeras apariciones de los virus más importantes, los primeros buscadores, cuando se fundaron las grandes compañías, su valor de mercado y otros datos interesantes:

The History of The Internet 1969 - 2012

1969: A connection is made between The University of California Los Angeles and The Stanford Research Institute - Arpanet is born; created by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects (Darpa)

1971: The first virus - Creeper - created

1973: Arpanet users 35

1976: Apple founded

1978:
    400 Arpanet users receive the first ever spam email inviting them to a product demo
    US National Science Foundation creates a non-military network for American universities

1979: Arpanet user Kevin Mackenzie uses the emoticon -)

1980: Apple IPO - market cap £1.7bn

1981:
    Arpanet and all network users
    IBM launches the personal computer

1982:
    The Elk Cloner virus created
   Scottt Fahlman, computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University - adds a colon to the first online emoticon :-)

1986:
   The US National Science Foundation created a network to link existing university supercomputer networks
    Microsoft IPO - market cap $770m

1987: Stoned virus created

1988: The first worm - "Morris" - created

1990:
    "Archie" the first search engine created by a student
    Arpanet decomissioned

1991: Tim Lee at CERN introduces the World Wide Web

1992: Michelangelo virus created

1993: Mosaic web browser launched

1994:
    Webcrawler, go.com and Lycos search engines launched
    Yahoo! founded

1995:
    Microsoft launches Internet Explorer.  Amazon and eBay founded
    18,957 websites are live


1997: AOL launches instant messenger

1998:
    Worldwide internet users breaks the 100m figure
    Google founded

1999:
    Worldwide fears of computer crashes over Y2K or Millennium Bug
    Zappos - the first online only shop - is launched.  Napster founded
    Happy99 - first email virus created

2000: iloveyou virus - 50 million users report being infected within 10 days

2001:
    Napster ordered to stop users sharing copyrighted music
    Wikipedia launches. Apple launches the ipod.
    CodeRed - the first virus to spread without human interaction

2002: Friendster founded. Gawker founded

2003: Apple launches iTunes and Safari browser. Myspace, Linkedin, Skype and WordPress launched

2004: Google's IPO - market cap £23bn. Facebook, Flickr and Vimeo launch. Mozilla launches Firefox browser

2005:
    Worldwide internet users breaks the 1 BILLION
    Reddit and YouTube launch
    Cabir - the first mobile virus created

2006: Twitter launched. Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn

2007: Apple launches iPhone. Tumblr launched. BBC launches the iPlayer

2008:
    Facebook becomes the world's most popular social network
    Google launched Chrome. Spotify launched. Apple launched App Store

2010:
    Apple launches iPad. Instagram and Pinterest launched
    Stuxnet virus targets industrial processes - and appears to target nuclear operations in Iran

2011: Death of Steve Jobs. Google+ launched. Microsoft buys Skype

2012: Worldwide internet users breaks 2.4 BILLION


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