Eric Dackis's History of the Internet Timeline

By edackis

  • 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.

  • First video game console, the Brown Box

    First video game console, the Brown Box
    http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/evolution-of-home-video-game-consoles-1967-2011/
    The first video game console looks like a woodem box. It was called the Brown Box. There were only six simple games for the console, namely ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game.

  • Computers ar Stanford and UCLA connected for first time

    Computers ar Stanford and UCLA connected for 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).

  • Microsoft was made

    Microsoft was made
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/history#T1=era0
    Microsoft has become one of the top software companies in the world. First invented by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

  • Apple was founded

    Apple was founded
    http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html
    Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers.

  • The fist Personal Computer Modem is Invented

    The fist 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.

  • The fist emoticon :-)

    The fist 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.

  • Nintendo started using electronics

    Nintendo started using electronics
    https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Corporate/Nintendo-History/Nintendo-History-625945.html
    In 1986, Nintendo made its first video game console named the Nintendo Entertainment System.

  • First Madden Football video game

    First Madden Football video game
    https://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/museum-exhibit
    Then callled John Madden Football, was the original madden game. It is amazing how much they have improved from year to year.

  • 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.

  • First smartphone

    First smartphone
    http://time.com/3137005/first-smartphone-ibm-simon/
    The first smartphone, named simon, was released to the public on for sale on August 16, 1994. And to think we are now on phones like the iphone 6 plus.

  • Google went up and running

    Google went up and running
    http://www.steegle.com/about/google-101-facts/1-11-how-it-all-began
    Google, the most successful search engine ever, was made in 1998.

  • YouTube was made

    YouTube was made
    http://mashable.com/2011/02/19/youtube-facts/
    The biggest place for uploading videos in the world. YouTube has become a huge industry in the past 10 years.

  • Timetoast was created

    Timetoast was created
    https://www.timetoast.com/about
    Timetoast is a great place for school projects, like this one. It is also a great place to chronologically organize events.

  • Instagram was released

    Instagram was released
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardhjames/the-first-instagram-picture-ever-uploaded-is-now-four-years#.lhQmMNZ2z
    One of the biggest social media outlets in the world was made. One of the best places to share pictures online.