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Advanced Research Projects Agency is created.
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stafford 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 in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed.
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the username from the computer name. -
The beginning of the 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. -
The first Peronal Computer Modem is born.
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyist. -
Spam is born.
The first unsolicited commercial email message, was sent out to 600 California Arpenet 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. MUDs were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and chat online. -
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 -) propoed 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 finished.
The code for the World Wide Web wa 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.
The first web page was created and, much like the first email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
World starts to use internet.
About 45 million people are using the internet, with roughly about 30 million people using the internet in the United State and 15 million using the internet in European Nations. -
Google is started.
Google opens its first office in California. -
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is created. -
Internet brings in users.
As of January 2002, 58% of the United States population uses the internet. -
Spam and Pirating becomes an issue.
It's estimated that about 2.6 billion music files are illegally downloaded every month. Spam becomes a server-clogging menace. -
MyDoom and Novarg
MyDoom and Novarg are become internet worms. Every 1 in 10 emails are infected by these viruses. -
Youtube.
Youtube.com is launched. -
The Internet gains more websites.
About 92 million websites are on the internet. -
Music industry.
Legal online music download triple to 6.7 million downloads a week. -
Coding problem.
A coding error was discovered in April in OpenSSL, encryption software that made purchases with a computer and another website made it so all their personal information was leaked.
