Alex Rizzo's History Of The Internet Timeline

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Is Created

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Is Created
    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
  • Computers At Stanford And UCLA Connected For The First Time

    Computers At Stanford And UCLA Connected For The First Time
    The first hosts on what would one day
    become the Internet.
  • An Arpanet Network Was Established

    An Arpanet Network Was Established
    Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the
    "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
  • Email Was First Developed

    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)
  • The Beginning Of TCP/IP

    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).
  • The First Personal Computer Modem Is Invented

    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.
  • Spam Is Born

    Spam Is Born
    The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
    Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • MUD- The First Version Of Multiplayer Games Was Debuted

    MUD- The First Version 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.
  • The First Emoticon

    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.
  • The First Laptop Is Created

    The First Laptop Is Created
    Laptop HistoryThe Gavilan is considered the first functional laptop, created by Manny Fernandez.
  • The Domain Name System Was Created

    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.
  • Microsoft Windows is created

    Microsoft Windows is created
    Microsoft: Wikipedia
    A series of operating systems created by Microsoft.
  • World Wide Web Protocols Finished

    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.
  • First Web Page Created

    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.
  • ESPN.com Is Created

    ESPN.com Is Created
    It is the official website of ESPN and covers all things sports-related.
  • mlb.com Is Created

    mlb.com Is Created
    mlb.com: Wikipediamlb.com is the official site of major league baseball, which covers MLB news, and contains the sport's rules.
  • Yahoo! is created

    Yahoo! is created
    Yahoo!: WikipediaCreated at Stanford by Jerry Yang and David Filo as a guide of other websites.
  • Internet Explorer Is Created

    Internet Explorer Is Created
    Wikipedia: Internet ExplorerIt was a web browser created as a part of Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
  • Google Is Created.

    Google Is Created.
    Wikipedia: GoogleGoogle was created as a search engine. It is a corporation that specializes in internet-related goods and services.
  • Youtube Is Created

    Youtube Is Created
    Wikipedia: YoutubeIt was made so people could freely share videos of whatever they wanted. Its headquarters is located in San Bruno, California.
  • Bing is Created

    Bing is Created
    Wikipedia: BingBing is a web search engine from Microsoft.
  • Minecraft Is Created

    Minecraft Is Created
    It is a sandbox indie game created my Marcus Perrson. It is an online game and is my favorite video game.