Kyle Scott's History of the Internet Timeline

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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 :-)
    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 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 protocols finished

    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

    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.
  • Netflix founded

    Netflix founded
    Netflix foundedReed Hastings and Marc Randolph co-found Netflix.
  • Google was created

    Google was created
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  • Wikipedia launched

    Wikipedia launched
    Wikipedia launchedJimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Wikipedia
  • Facebook created

    Facebook created
    Facebook creationMark Zuckerberg and his college roommates created the social networking site, Facebook.
  • Gmail created

    Gmail created
    GmailThe email service provided by google was created
  • Youtube created

    Youtube created
    Youtube was createdThe video-sharing website, Youtube was created.
  • Twitter launched

    Twitter launched
    Twitter launchedJack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass created twitter in March and it launched by July
  • Instagram created

    Instagram created
    Instagram releasedKevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released their app just after midnight.
  • Snapchat released

    Snapchat released
    Snapchat releasedThe video messaging site, Snapchat, was released
  • Vine released

    Vine released
    Vine releasedThe video sharing service, Vine, was released