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Leonard Kleinrock published the first paper on the packet swithching theory
Klienrock came up with the idea of packet switching instead of circuts which was a major step in computer networking. -
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a Way that computers can talk to each other in case of nulear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connect for the first time
The first hosts on what one would say became the internet -
An Arpanet network is 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 was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision do use the @ symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name. -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so called "internetwork" twhich would have no central control and would work areound a transmission control proctol. -
The first apple computer
appleThe apple 1 was invented by Steve Wozniack and Steve Jobs. It was the first with a single circut board in a computer. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to compuer hobbyists. -
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
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was calle 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 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 :-) -
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
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Windows 1 is released
windowsWindows 1.0 Beta (0.99) was the very-shortly-released framework of Windows 1.0 from March 1985, and was black and white, with fewer features than Windows 1.0. -
the ARPANET had its first automated network security incident
securityA student at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Robert T. Morris, wrote a program that would connect to another computer, find and use one of several vulnerabilities to copy itself to that second computer, and begin to run the copy of itself at the new location. -
the first Interop trade show was born
interop 5,000 engineers from potential customer organizations came to see if it all did work as was promised. -
World Wide Web proctols 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
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. -
Wi-Fi was invented
WIFIWi-Fi was invented by NCR Corporation/AT&T (later on Lucent & Agere Systems) in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. -
Internet explorer is released
internetexplorerMicrosoft Internet Explorer 1 (IE1) was a graphical web browser that made its debut from Microsoft. -
Google.com is registered as a domain
google A play on words with the word, googol, a word for a number with 100 zeroes -
Youtube is created
youtubeYouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
