Eric's History of the Internet

  • Advacned Research Projects Agency creation

    Advacned Research Projects Agency creation
    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).
  • Microsoft founded

    Microsoft founded
    Microsoft was made whenBill Gates, the owner of microsoft created the biggest tech giant ever
  • Creation of apple

    Creation of apple
    Steve jobs the maker of the first widely popular smartphone made the company that brings iphone, ipod and imac
  • 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.
  • John cena was born

    John cena was born
    Celebrate his birthday on April 23 at the WWE SUPER SLAAAAAMMMThe base of a great internet meme was born internet meme was born.
  • 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 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.
  • 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

     First web page created
    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.
  • Founding of Google

    Founding of Google
    Google was born thus began the modern era of the internet
  • Creation of Facebook

    Creation of Facebook
    Face book is one of the original social media sites. Wow, thats a lot of pictures of peoples food
  • Creation of youtube

    Creation of youtube
    Before watching, comment rate and subscribeYouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. sit down and watch some of the most popular people on youtube, dont forget to like, comment, rate and subscribe.
  • Creation of Club Penguin

    Creation of Club Penguin
    Play NowThe most nostalgic game since webkins was created
  • Creation of bing

    Creation of bing
    Bing is basiclly google. i just need filler for this timeline nothing much to see here other than a slightly more colorful version of google and a different logo
  • Creation of Agar.io

    Creation of Agar.io
    Eat everything and dont get eaten, or else youll have to start over. agario is a simple game that is strangley addictive based around the simple idea. Eat or be Eaten