Noah Bunning's History of the Internet Timeline

  • The first Mechanical Computer

    The first Mechanical Computer
    The first mechanical computer, created by Charles Babbage in 1822, doesn't really resemble what most would consider a computer today. Therefore, this document has been created with a listing of each of the computer firsts, starting with the Difference Engine and leading up to the computers we use today.
  • The first programable computer

    The first programable computer
    The first mechanical computer, created by Charles Babbage in 1822, doesn't really resemble what most would consider a computer today. Therefore, this document has been created with a listing of each of the computer firsts, starting with the Difference Engine and leading up to the computers we use today.
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    Beginning of the Internet!

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
  • UCLA Connected​

    computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
  • ​​​First message processor

    ​​​First message processor
    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.
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  • Email was est.​​​

    Email was est.​​​
    "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".
  • First web game

    Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax sell their first typewritten copies of Dungeons and Dragons, a game which continues to inspire both tabletop and computer RPGs to this day.
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    "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".
  • The day apple was founded

    The day apple was founded
    Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
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  • The first personal computer Modem was created​​

    The first personal computer Modem was created​​
    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 Was born 1978

    ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Spam Was born 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.
  • MUD was created​​​

    MUD was created​​​
    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 Emoticons :-)

    The First Emoticons :-)
    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

    The Domain Name System
    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 Was Created

    World Wide Web Was Created
    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 was created

    First web page was created
    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.
  • The first web cam

    The first web cam
    Nobody likes arriving at an empty coffee pot. Especially computer scientists at Cambridge University—which is why, back in 1991, a team of them invented the world's first webcam to keep an eye on coffee levels from their desks.
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  • Date Google Search engine is created

    Date Google Search engine is created
    Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
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  • The date YouTube Was est.

    The date YouTube Was est.
    "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—in February 2005."
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  • Date Snap Chat Was created

    Date Snap Chat Was created
    "Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc."
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  • The day agar.io was created

    The day agar.io was created
    Agar.io[a] is a massively multiplayer online action game created by Matheus Valadares. Players control a cell in a map representing a petri dish. The goal is to gain as much mass as possible by eating agar and cells smaller than the player's cell, while avoiding larger ones which can eat the player's cell(s). The name comes from the substance agar, used to culture bacteria.
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