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1962
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
1969
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
1970
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. -
1971
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) -
1974
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). -
1977
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. -
1978
Spam is born The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
1979
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. -
1982
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. -
1984
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. -
1990
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. -
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. -
1995
The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo! -
1995
Ebay is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay -
1997
Reed Hastings and software executive Marc Randolph co-found Netflix to offer online movie. rentals.https://media.netflix.com/en/about-netflix -
1998
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google -
2004
The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3 -
2005
YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The investors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google. https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-youtube-1992691 -
2006
Twitter started in 2006 when the podcasting company Odeo realized they needed to reinvent themselves and began brainstorming new creative ideas. 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. http://profilerehab.com/twitter-help/history_of_twitter -
2009
Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 1, 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine) -
2010
It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app exclusively for the iOS operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram -
2011
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown,[6] former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
