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Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency ARPA is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a 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 First Virus
The first virus called the Creeper infected Arpanet in 1971. It was created by Bob Thomas. It wasn't necessarily bad the only thing it did was display a message saying "I'm the creeper: catch me if you can," but did not suffer any lasting damage. The first piece of anti-virus software was created as a direct response to the Creeper's challenge. It was called the Reaper -
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. -
The First Search Engine was made
[ First email to first youtbe vidoe](http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history)The first search engine was made. It made the lives of internet users much easier when trying to find websites such as youtube.
Fun Fact: The name of the search engine is archive without the v -
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. -
The first webcam was used
First email to first youtube videos The first web cam was basically the father of Youtube Vlogs although people grew out of it and went with cameras such as the Flip Ultra HD. Now web cams are commonly used to call people on Skype. -
The firat eBay sale
The first email to the first youtube videoThe French-Iranian programmer Pierre Omidyar launched AuctionWeb. It was later renamed eBay. There had been other virtual auction sites, but this one was better designed and better marketed.The first item to be bought at auction was a broken laser pointer offered by Omidyar himself, finally purchased for $14.83. Omidyar had the courtesy to contact the winning bidder and warn them they were buying faulty goods, but the buyer claimed to collect broken laser pointers, so the sale went through. -
Nintendo came to the internet
Nintendo.com Nintendo is my favorite company because they brought me and my friends together and playing games. Although Nintendo can be lazy idiots sometimes its still a great company. -
My Favorite Site, Youtube, was created
Youtbe Youtbe is my all time favorite site. Its usually where i'm at all day. There are so many genres of content and it houses a lot of my freinds. Im planning on being something on a certain community of Youtube. -
The first youtbe Video
Me at the zoo The first Youtube video, in theory the video to start it all. It is titled "Me at the zoo" from here Youtube took off and went into different communities. -
My favorite Youtuber called Chuggaaconroy joined
Chuggaaconroy's channel Although he joined in july 2006 he started making videos in 2008. He is the leader, in my opinion, of the community I would like to join, the let's play community. I started watching him in 2010. Now he is a friend, a celebrity but if nothing else a inspiration to me and 465,048 + people. -
My First Youtube Account, Charmillion999
Charmillion999 I didn't take this account seriously and now my mom uses it every now and then. To be completely honest im not a fan of that channel. Although it is funny to watch my horrible videos -
My second favorite yuotuber,StephenVlog made his first vlog, day 0.
StephenVlog Stephen is another one of my friends who is a rather famous youtuber. His vlog account was acually the first channel I watched normally. He has many different channels besides the vlog. They are StephenPlays, xfisjmg1, Daily Pack and Ninten Speaks. He has vloged for 1041 days now.
