The Internet turned 50 -- and what a long, strange trip it's been. Internet50
A previous version of the graphic in this story misaligned the dates with some of the milestones for Google, Facebook and Twitter. The dates have been corrected.On Oct. 29, 1969, a UCLA computer science professor and a graduate student sent the first digital transmission from their computer to another one at the Stanford Research Institute.
That first “L” and “O” sent across California through the ARPANET network of academic computers was the forerunner of the internet as we know it today. That’s opened the door for the texts and DMs, emails and cloud services, web pages and social media accounts, online shopping sites, mobile banking, cat videos and all of the other online activity and transactions that have us staring at our screens for more than 11 hours a day.
The internet also launched the tech boom that has spawned the first trillion-dollar U.S. public companies in Apple AAPL, +2.84%, Amazon AMZN, +0.83% and Microsoft MSFT, +0.24%. It has led to the social media conundrum where people are more “connected” than ever, at least digitally — but also more exposed, through networks like Facebook FB, +1.03%, Twitter TWTR, -1.17% and Snapchat SNAP, +0.80%. Companies like Google GOOG, +1.08% have become a verb.
Here’s a look at how the internet gave birth to the FAANG stocks, and some highlights along the way that have defined modern life as we know it.
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