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U.S. Government Creates ARPA
ARPA launchedThe United States government creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik launch. -
The First Hackers
HackingIt all began in the 1960s at MIT, origin of the term "hacker", where extremely skilled individuals practiced hardcore programming in FORTRAN and other older languages -
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford 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 created. -
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) -
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 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 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 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 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. -
Cross Country Internet
InternetIn 1986, the National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as a cross country 56 Kbps backbone for the Internet. They maintained their sponsorship for nearly a decade, setting rules for its non-commercial government and research uses. -
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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 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. -
Creation of Napster
Creation of NapsterAlthough the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever. -
The First Webcam
WebcamThe first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot. -
Google is Introduced to the Web
Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
Facebook is Invented
FacebookMark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. -
Youtube is on the Web
Youtube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. -
ESPN is introduced to the web
ESPNIn mid-1978, faced with unemployment after being fired from his job as Communications Director for the New England Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes), Bill Rasmussen founded ESPN.
