Griffin Foster's History Of The Internet Timeline

By GFoster
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Is created

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Is created
    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a 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.
  • The computer mouse was created

    The computer mouse was created
    Computer mouseThe first computer mouse was created by Douglas Engelbart
  • Email was first devoloped

    Email was first devoloped
    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 created

    Microsoft was created
    MicrosoftMicrosoft a software services and solutions company was created by Bill gates and Paul Allen
  • 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

    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 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.
  • ebay was created

    ebay was created
    Ebayebay a site to buy and sell items was created by Pierre Omidyar
  • Yahoo was created

    Yahoo was created
    Yahoo
    Yahoo a type of search engine created by Jerry Yang and David Filo
  • Google was created

    Google was created
    Google createdgoogle. com was registed as a domain name by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  • Walmart came online

    Walmart came online
    WalmartWalmart offered shoppers the ability to shop online
  • Apple launches Itunes Music store

    Apple launches Itunes Music store
    ItunesApple launched a revolutionary online music store where people could find music and buy songs
  • Gmail Launched

    Gmail Launched
    GmailGoogle created an ad free email service
  • Bing was created

    Bing was created
    BingA search engine named bing was created by steve ballmer
  • Twitter was created

    Twitter was created
    TwitterTwitter a social networking site was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass