Splice.com history

1921 - Margie - Eddie Cantor, (-) Look for the Silver Lining - Marion Harris, (-) The Wabash Blues - Isham Jones, (-) All by Myself - Ted Lewis, (-) Wang Wang Blues - Paul Whiteman,

1922 - April Showers - Al Jolson (-) My Buddy - Henry Burr (-) Hot Lips - Paul Whiteman (-) On the Alamo - Isham Jones (-) Toot, Toot, Tootsie - Al Jolson (-)

Beginning in 1923, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) required licensing fees to play their music on the radio.

1924 - The Prisoner’s Song - Vernon Dalhart (-) It Had to Be You- Isham Jones (-) King Porter Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton (-) Jealous - Marion Harris (-) Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin (-)

1927- I’m Coming, Virginia - Bix Beiderbecke (-) Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael (-) Lucky Lindy - Nat Shilkret (-) Shaking the Blues Away - Ruth Etting (-) Black & Tan Fantasy - Duke Ellington (-)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958, bringing together some of the best scientific minds in the country.

In 1959 he joined an American think tank, the RAND Corporation, and was asked to research how the US Air Force could keep control of its fleet if a nuclear attack ever happened.

In 1965, Lawrence Roberts made two separate computers in different places ‘talk’ to each other for the first time.

When the first packet-switching network was developed in 1969, Kleinrock successfully used it to send messages to another site, and the ARPA Network—or ARPANET—was born.

By 1973, 30 academic, military and research institutions had joined the network, connecting locations including Hawaii, Norway and the UK.

In 1974 two American computer scientists, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, proposed a new method that involved sending data packets in a digital envelope or ‘datagram’. The address on the datagram can be read by any computer, but only the final host machine can open the envelope and read the message inside.

The growth of the internet, 1985–95

Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of a ‘web of information’ in 1989.

In 1990, Berners-Lee developed Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and designed the Universal Resource Identifier (URI) system.

On 6 August 1991 the code to create more web pages and the software to view them was made freely available on the internet.

In 1993, Marc Andreessen, an American student in Illinois, launched a new browser called Mosaic.

In 1994 Andreesen formed Netscape Communications with entrepreneur Jim Clark.

By 1995, Navigator had around 10 million global users.

Parker, along with Fanning’s uncle, persuaded Fanning that the file-sharing program could form the basis of a company, and in 1999 the three founded Napster.

Napster was shut down in 2001 (see cybercrime: File sharing and piracy) after a successful court injunction was granted to the Recording Industry Association of America, but the idea that songs could be downloaded, stored, and shared through networked computers had clearly caught on.

Roxio, Inc., an American computer software company, acquired the assets of Napster in 2002, and the following year Roxio relaunched Napster as a legitimate e-commerce enterprise that sold digital music files.

In 2004 Roxio changed its corporate name to Napster to strengthen the identification with its music website.

At the UC Berkeley School of Information, on November 9, 2005 Mitchell Kapor delivered an address entitled Content Creation by Massively Distributed Collaboration.

No charges were filed, but he was forced to step down as president of Facebook (though he continued to own a minority stake in the company worth hundreds of millions of dollars). He joined the Founders Fund, a venture capital firm cofounded by Thiel, in 2006 as a managing partner.

In 2008 Napster was acquired by the Best Buy Company, Inc., a United States-based retailer of electronic products.

Parker left Founders Fund in 2014.

In 2015 he cofounded the Parker Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on initiatives in life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement.