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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 Standford and UCLA Connected for the First Time.
The first hosts on what would one day become the Intenet. -
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 Devolped
Devolped by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the omputer name (which later on becoame the domain.) -
The Begining 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 trnsmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP) -
Microsoft
MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues.[4] -
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc.Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and more. -
The First Personal Computer Modem is Inveted
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commerical 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 Dabuted
The precursor of World of Warcraft and Second Life was devloped in 1979, it was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUD's were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The First Emoticon :-)
While many peoople 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 adresses on the internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and thrn converted it to the IP adress. -
World Wide Web Protocols Finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on him proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URL's. -
FIrst Web Page Created
The first web page brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, and much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Yahoo
YahooYahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States.[3] -
Netflix
NetflixNetflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed DVDs are sent via Permit Reply Mail. -
Google
GoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies.[7] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords. -
YouTube
YouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. -
Twitter
TwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio. -
Hulu
HuluHulu is a website and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, TBS, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States, its overseas territories and Japan. Hulu Japan has a .jp website and log in and payment access is separate from U.S. access. Each region is blocked by IP addre -
Bing
BingBing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine"[2]) from Microsoft. -
Instagram
InstagramInstagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio now typically used by mobile device cameras.
