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USSR launches Sputnik
SPutnik
The start of global telecommunications. Satellites play an important role in transmitting all sorts of data today.
In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military. -
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack -
Space ware first game on internet
SPACE WARE
Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game. -
first paper on packet switching theory
Talking
Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. -
Exception of UNIX
UNIX
Unix: the operating system whose design heavily influenced that of Linux and FreeBSD (the operating systems most popular in today’s web servers/web hosting services). -
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
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
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
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). -
APPLE WAS FOUNDED
Apple
Apple officially got off the ground. It was then that Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, the Pete Best of Apple's early history. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented-
he modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
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 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. -
MTV First Created
MTV
At its conception "MTV" stood for "Music Television" as the channel was designed to show music videos, but the content has shifted over time toward a youth lifestyle channel featuring numerous reality shows. -
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 (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. -
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 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 -
Myspace was Founded
Myspace
MySpace was founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. MySpace is a social-networking Website. -
FaceBook was Created
Facebook
Facebook is the second largest social network on the web, behind only MySpace in terms of traffic. Primarily focused on high school to college students, Facebook has been gaining market share, and more significantly a supportive user base. -
Youtube created
Youtube
YouTube is a video sharing site that allows users to upload and display video files from their own lives. It has a wide variety of videos available from TV shows to personal home movies -
Bing Created
Bing
As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft's search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing
