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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
The first hosts on what would one day be the internet. -
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 internet) in 1970 was created -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tominson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks into a so called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmition control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first personal computer modem was invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicated commercial email messgae (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD - The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor of 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 roleplaying-games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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 domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers 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. -
World Wide Web protocols finsihed
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
brought some major inovations 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. -
First smartphone is made
Smartphone
The first smartphone made by IBM was released to the public. The phone was called IBM Simon -
Xbox Live is released
Xbox Live
Xbox live is released for everybody who had an xbox to connect to each other via broadband connection -
Skype
Skype
Skype was first released in August 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Danish Janus Friis, and Swedish Niklas Zennström, who had also originally developed Kazaa.[15] Skype had 663 million registered users as of the end of 2010. -
Steam is released
Steam
Steam is released for windows. Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses -
Youtube was founded
Youtube Youtube is launched for millions of people to upload and share their videos. -
Battlefield 2 comes out
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2 is released, adding to the successful Battlefield series -
Gmail released still in beta
Gmail Release
Gmail is released for the public to use for the first time. However the email was still in beta at release -
1 st iPhone is released
Iphone
The first generation iPhone is released on June 29, 2007, along with iTunes 7.3 to go along with the phone. -
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Grand Theft Auto V multiplayer released
GTA5
Grand Theft Auto V releases the multiplayer update so you can now go online and connect with others
