Devon Jones' History of The Internet Timeline

  • Advanced Resaerch Projects Agency (ARPA) is Created

    Advanced Resaerch 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

    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 the network) in 1970 was created.
  • Email First Developed

    Email First Developed
    Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made a decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name (Which later became the domain name).
  • laptop

    laptop
    laptop
    A laptop, or notebook, is a portable personal computer with a clamshell form factor, suitable for mobile use.[
  • chat rooms

    chat rooms
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    The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.
  • The Beginning of TCP/IP

    The Beginning of TCP/IP
    A proposal was published to a link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "Inter-Network", which would have o 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 mpdem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initialy sold to computer hobbyists.
  • Spam is Born

    Spam is Born
    The first unsolicited comercial email message (later known as spam), was sent to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • MUD

    MUD
    The precurser to the World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUserDungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.
  • The First Emoticon :-)

    The First Emoticon :-)
    The first 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.
  • World WIde Web Protocols Finished

    World WIde Web Protocols Finished
    The code for World WIde Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposol from year before, along with 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 first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
  • google

    google
    g
    Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[7] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[8][9] an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.
  • Wikipedia Started

    Wikipedia Started
    Wiki
    -Wikipedia was intended to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopidia created by experts.
    -Accourding to Alexa Internet, Wikipedia is the seventh most popular website in over all user traffic
  • Itunes

    Itunes
    itunes itunes store was originally itunes music store, and was software based online.
  • YouTube Created

    YouTube Created
    youtube
    -A video sharing website, was created by former paypal employees
    -This web site alows users to upload, download and watch videos and make use of WebM, H.26/MPEG-4 AVC
  • Iphone 3G came out

    Iphone 3G came out
    Iphone
    -First it came to the US with a quad-band GSM cellular connectivity
    -Off duty cops were hired to guard stores overnight because of the companys and stores didnt want another time like the ps3.
  • app store

    app store
    aThe App Store is a digital distribution platform for mobile apps on iOS, developed and maintained by Apple Inc.
  • men of war

    men of war
    the update
    is a real-time tactics / strategy game set in World War II. It is a standalone expansion pack for the 2009 game Men of War.
  • game center

    game center
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    Game Center is an online multiplayer social gaming network released by Apple Inc.[5][6] It allows users to invite friends to play a game, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking, track their achievements, and compare their high scores on a leader board.