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first spacecraft satellite
During the Cold War, on October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union quietly launched its first spacecraft satellite called Sputnik into orbit. This launch challenged the United States Department of Defense to put a high priority on research and projects in science and technology and created an agency called ARPA -
ARPANET
ARPA-funded computer network that becomes a reality in 1969. Over the following years, the ARPANET grows. -
two computers communicate
Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology. -
"LO"
University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. The first message is "LO," which was an attempt by student Charles Kline to "LOGIN" to the SRI computer from the university. -
EMAIL
BBN’s Ray Tomlinson introduces network email -
INTERNET
The term Internet is born. -
ISP
The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet. -
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email -
emoticon
The modern emoticon was born. -
first registered domain.
Symbolics.com, the website for Symbolics Computer Corp. in Massachusetts, becomes the first registered domain. -
internet users
The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 20,000 -
internet worm
One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988 -
AOL is launched
When Apple pulled out of the AppleLink program in 1989, the project was renamed and America Online was born -
commercial
the first commercial dial-up Internet provider -
the first webcam
It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.
