Squared Online – Neil Perkins Presentation
The video presentation from Neil Perkins was great!
Neil started with an interactive short history of how long some of the tech we use every day and take for granted. I had pen and pad at the ready on noted some of the historic moments in our tech history.
- 1971 – 1st email was sent using ARPANET, the predecessor of what we know today as the Internet.
- 1978 – 1st email spam was sent
- 1990 – 1st website created
- 1993 – 1st search engine created – W3C, then Yahoo in 1995
- 1994 – 1st eCommerce site
- 1994 – 1st banner ad created
- 1995 – 1st eBay sale – a broken laser pointer
- 1998 – Google launched
- 2002 – 1st social network – Friendster
- 2006 – Facebook opened to everyone
- 2010 – Instagram launches in October and now has 100 million users
Just looking at the list as I wrote it down was quite amazing. The advances we have made in such a small amount of time. The hardware technology we now have at our fingertips and the amazing possibilities that can be created.
Neil went on to speak about Moore’s law
GAFA – Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon – The ones to watch for emerging as leaders in shaping the digital tomorrow.