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1957 Into Space
In 1957 the Russians had launched "Sputnik" (the first ever satellite into space.This concerned the Americans and helped speed up the creation of the internet. InetDaemon -
1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computer can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
1969- Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
1970- An Arpanet network was established.
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computer used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
1971- Email was first developed.
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
1974- The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
1977- The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
1978- Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
1979- MUD The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
1982- The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. -
1984: The domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
1985 Birth of the NSFNET
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was chartered to continue research and manage the Internet. This expansion began by connnecting colleges and universites using 56Kbps dedicated circuits from MCI in 1985. Later, the NSF contracted Merit to manage the NSFnet. InetDaemon -
1985 Quantum Computer Services
Quantum Computer Services, which later changes its name to America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic bulletin boards, news, and other information. factmonster -
1988 A vuirus spread through the internet
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. Factmonster -
1990: World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
1991: First web page created 1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet.
The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was -
1995 Release of Internet explorer
On August 16th one of the most used programs ever was released on to the internet. google -
1996 Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet
With roughly 30 million of those in North America (United States and Canada), 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific (Australia, Japan, etc.). 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online. Factmonster -
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2002 Mozilla Firefox Release
Mozilla Firefox was Netscape Communication's nickname for Navigator, its first Web browser, and the name of an open source public collaboration created to develop Navigator.google -
2005 Youtube was created
On February 14, 2005 the second most used website ever was created. youtube -
