CJ Turner's History of the Internet Timeline

  • The USSR launched the first artificial satellite named Sputnik into space.

    The USSR launched the first artificial satellite named Sputnik into space.
    SputnikDid this to become the most powerful in science and technology and lead the other coutries.
  • Bell Labs Invents Modem

    Bell Labs Invents Modem
    modem Bell Labs researchers invent the modem, which converts digital signals to electrical signals and back, enabling communication between computers.
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
    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 earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    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.
  • ESPN was created

    ESPN was created
    espn They created this site so that people can use the web to find out about there sports teams.
  • 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 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.
  • .com, .org, .gov, .edu and .mil are created

     .com, .org, .gov, .edu and .mil are created
    .com,.orgInternet pioneer Dr Jon Postel introduces the top-level domains .com, .org, .gov, .edu and .mil in one of a series of documents called Request For Comments
  • Power of Internet Realised

    Power of Internet Realised
    internet High powered computers are made and you can do a lot more on them and it helps out the universities.
  • 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 1991

    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.
  • Yahoo created

    Yahoo created
    yahooThe yahoo email was created so that you could email things to people around you.
  • Google opens first Office

    Google opens first Office
    GoogleGooge opened this office in California to help them thrive