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The Internet begins
The first real network started in 1969 and ran on packet switching. October 29 69 the first computers connected (Stanford and UCLA) first message was meant to be “Login” but computer crashed at letter “g”. -
UNIX
Unix was an operating system that design heavily influenced Linux and FreeBSD (operating systems most popular with today’s web hosting services) -
Email
Email was first developed by ray Tomlinson who made the decision to use the “@” symbol that was used to separate the user name from the computer name (later on became the domain name) -
EBook
Was when project Gutenberg was started by Michael hart. Gutenberg started to create a site that could have books and documents available electronically for free it was the birth of ebook. -
Cyclades
France started to create its on project similar to the Arpanet project its name was Cyclades. Even though Cyclades was shut down the project did pioneer a key idea the host computer should be responsible for data transmission rather than the network its self. -
Email
Email accounted for 75% of all Arpanet network activity. -
First trans atlantic connection
Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection with the university college of London -
inter network
Was a break through year? A proposal was published to link Arpa like networks to create a “inter-network” which would have no central control and work around a transmission protocol. -
First email program
With the popularity of emailing, the first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California in 1975. The biggest technological advance this program (called MSG) made was the addition of "Reply" and "Forward" functionality. -
first PC modem
This was a big year for the development we now it today. It was the first PC modem this was initially sold to computer hobbyists developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington -
bulletin board system
This was the year of the first bulletin board system (BBS) that was developed during a blizzard in Chicago -
Spam
Spam(Named spam later on) was born it was the first unsolicited commercial email message, sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
Gaming
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life and was called mud -
Enquire software
Enquire software -
emoticon
The first emoticon was born -
switch to TCP/IP
January 1, 1983 was the deadline for Arpanet computers to switch over to the TCP/IP protocols designed by Vinton Cerf. -
the well
the development of The WELL ( this is short for Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), its one of the oldest virtual communities still in operation. It was developed by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant . -
the worm
One of the first major Internet worms it was Referred to as "The Morris Worm" it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet. -
the proposal of the "World wide web"
brought about the proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee. It was written to persuade CERN that a global hypertext system was in CERN’s best interest. It was originally called "Mesh"; the term "World Wide Web" was coined while Berners-Lee was writing the code in 1990. -
dial up internet
Brought about the first commercial dial-up Internet provider. Also in the same year Arpanet ceased to exist. -
www finished
World wide web finished -
first page
First page created -
webcam
First web cam -
goverments
Goverments come in on the new internet and gov and org are created -
web mail
First web mail created called HoTMiaL capital letters of homage -
weblog coined
The name “weblog” coined -
Google
Google goes live -
Wikipeadia
Wikipeadia is launched -
"The" facebook
“The” facebook is opened but only to college students later “the” is dropped but the URL still works -
You tube
Youtube is launched -
mobil web
The iphone and the mobile web.
