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Advanced Research Projects Agency is created
Found a way to make computers 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 Arplanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlimson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to separator the user name from the computer name (which become the domain later on) -
the beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together in a thing called the inter-network which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol -
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(spam), was sent out to 600 California Arplanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- The first form of multiplayer games was created
An MUD was a MultiUser Dungeon. They were formed entirely of text, but contained elements of role-playing games, fiction, interactive, and online chat. This would later on lead to huge games later on such as WoW (World of Warcraft) and Second Life. -
The first emoticon
The fist emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, is was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather then the original -) -
The domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The DNS was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS allowed internet user to type in an easy to remember domain name the convert it into the IP address autoimatically -
WWW (World Wide Web) protocols finished
The code for WWW was written by Tim Berners-Lee, Based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs -
X Window System
X Windows System allowed actual graphics, instead of just text based dungeons. -
First web page created
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 is, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was -
First .Io Domain
The .Io Domain was created in 1997, however the first site with this domain was created in 1998. This is often used for open source projects, games, and used as a alternative for startup companies Source -
Google was created
Google was first being built in 1996 as a research project, nicknamed Backrub. It had 2 co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. -
Steam is created
Steam is a gaming distribution platform designed by Vavle. It is used as a social platform/marketplace for gamer and gamers alike. Source -
Youtube was created
Youtube is one of the most popular websites. It was released in 2005, and created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The site grew astoundingly fast, and within a year had over 65,000 uploads, and over a hundred-million viewers every day. Source -
Google Chrome is created
Chrome was originally released in Beta on September 2, 2008, but its stable release was on December 11 of the same year Source -
Twitch was released
Twitch was a spin off of Justin.tv after its gaming category grew exponentially well. Twitch now boasts an impressive 100 million viewers and 1.5 million broadcasters every month.
