History Of The Internet (ArthurBittner)

First Telecommunications Cable

1858

When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by Cyrus West Field

Sputnik Launches

1957

Sputnik Launches as the first man-made satellite in space.

First Video Game

1958

October 1958: Physicist Invents First Video Game. In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.

First Modem

1962

in 1962 the world's first commercial modem went up and it was made by Bell Labs but invented by Dr. Townshed

ARPANET Project

1966

Robert Taylor initiates the ARPANET Project, the foundation for today's internet under the department of Defense

Internet Launched With Four Computers

1969

The physical network is constructed linking four nodes: University Of California at Los Angeles, SRI and UOU

First Wireless Router

1971

In 1971, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. They are the ones credited with inventing Wi-Fi.

History of MUD

1978

Summary MUD History. ... The first MUD, an adventure game with multiple players, was invented by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle at Essex University in England in 1978.

First Router

1981

The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa; both were also based on PDP-11s. Virtually all networking now uses TCP/IP, but multiprotocol routers are still manufactured.

First Mario

Jul 9, 1981

Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981. He is shown to be a carpenter and has a pet ape called Donkey Kong. The carpenter mistreats the ape and Donkey Kong escapes to kidnap Jumpman's girlfriend, originally known as the Lady, but later named Pauline.

First DNS

1983

DNS: (Domain Name System) The Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses. For example, when a Web address (URL) is typed into a browser, DNSservers return the IP address of the Web server associated with that name. By Paul V. Mockapetris in 1983.

DNS

1984

The Internet's System for converting alphabetic names to numeric IP addresses

First Submarine Fiber Cable

1984

The first submarine fiber cable was laid in the english channel between portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

First URL

Mar 15, 1985

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address,[1] is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI),[2] although many people use the two terms interchangeably.[3][a] URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.

First Transatlantic Fiber Cable

1988

TAT- 8 fier optic cables went into service was laid under the Atlantic Ocean, from the US to Britain. it carried the equivalent of 40,000 telephone conversations

First Internet Provider

1989

In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989.

First Search Engine

1990

The first few hundred web sites began in 1993 and most of them were at colleges, but long before most of them existed came Archie. The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.

First Internet Server

1991

NEXCube was invented by Tim Burners Lee fo his new invention called The World Wide Web

First Dial-Up Internet

1992

The USENET was a UNIX based system that used a dial-up connection to transfer data through telephone modems. Dial-up Internet has been around since the 1980s via public providers such as NSFNET-linked universities and was first offered commercially in July 1992 by Sprint.

DOOM made

1993

Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents) is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in video game history, for having helped to pioneer the now-ubiquitous first-person shooter.

First Gaming Website

1996

AOL made online games free, dropping surcharges to play, in 1996, and the resulting load caused it to drop online game offerings entirely. IBGames, creators of Federation, started offering access to the game through its own website, making it perhaps the first game to transition off of an online service

Deep Web

2001

The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search engines for any reason.

Halo Made

2001

Halo November 15, 2001 Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant.The central focus of the franchise builds off the experiences of Master Chief John-117, one of a group of supersoldiers codenamed Spartans

History of Steam

Sep 12, 2003

Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve,which offers digital rights management,multiplayer gaming, video streaming and social networking services. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality which developers can use to integrate many of Steam's functions into their products, including networking, matchmaking, in-game achievements

Facebook Made:

2004

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

Killzone History

Nov 2, 2004

The series is set in the 24th century, showing the galactic war between the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) and the Helghan Empire. The Killzone series follows the continuous war between the ISA and Helghast taking place on both ISA Earth colonies and the planet Helghan, the home planet of the Helghast.

Call Of Duty Made

Nov 16, 2004

Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise. The series began on Microsoft Windows, and later expanded to consoles and handhelds. Several spin-off games have been released. The earlier games in the series are set primarily in World War II, but later games like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare are set in modern times or in futuristic settings. The most recent game, Call of Duty: WWII, was released on November 3, 2017, and returns to the series' mid-20th century roots

Roblox Made

2005

Roblox, as a beta website, was created by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004, with the initial name of DynaBlocks. Baszucki started testing the first demos that year. The website became available for PCs in 2005, when it was renamed Roblox – a portmanteau of the words "robots" and "blocks".

YouTube Made

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on VALENTINE'S DAY, because it used to be a dating website

Twitter Made

2006

Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, known as "tweets.