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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computer at Standford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
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 established. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name (which later became the domain name). -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together in a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which became TCP/IP). -
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
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 wasdeveloped in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combiningelements 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 ofthe emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed byMacKenzie. -
The Domain Name System was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name systemwas 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.
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 webpage 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. -
Google was invented
History of GoogleLarry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford. Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year eventually taking up too much bandwidth. Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The word "googol," is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora.
About PandoraThe founder of Pandora was Tim Westergren. Pandora's single mission is to play only music people love. Pandor's team is listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every track melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics, etc. -
Itunes was esablished
Itunes was createdItunes started with with 200,000 songs. (Simultaneously, Apple released its third-generation iPod.) In the first week, iTunes Store customers bought more than a million songs. Six months later, Apple convinced the labels to allow iTunes to be shared with Windows users. -
Facebook was launched
About FacebookIt was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile -
Youtube was invented
About Youtube Youtube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal. -
Quizlet was created
About QuizletQuizlet was created by 15 year old Andrew Sutherland in a highschool french class. Quizlet’s free study tools and apps are used by over a million students and teachers a day in every country – from grade school to grad school, language learners to vocational students, at home and in the classroom -
Twitter was published.
History of TwitterTwiiter was invented by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of creating an SMS(short message service, texting for example) that would allow a user to communicate with a small group of people. Twitter was first called "status" until the group looked in the dictionary for names and found twitter which fit it perfectly. The original product name was twttr. -
Instagram was created.
About Instagram Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Their goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way for people to share their life on the go. -
Snapchat was officially on the internet
Snapchat FactsThe app was first called Picaboo. Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO, and Bobby Murphy, co-founder and CTO, somehow found themselves just as famous for creating the revolutionary disappearing-image app as they are for turning down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. -
Gotsoccer was made
GotsoccerGotsoccer was created to show over 10,000 team rankings and tournament dates that are located all around the United States.
