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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
ARPA 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 username from the computer name (which later 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 of World of Warcraft sand Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MulitUser 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 -
Virus Shuts down Internet Servers
www.infoplease.comA virus called the worm shuts down 10% of the worlds internet servers -
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 Effort to Index
www.infoplease.comThe first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites. -
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 White House Launches Its Website
www.infoplease.comnitial The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. -
Alot of Internet Users
[www.infoplease.com](www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html)Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, with roughly 30 million of those in North America (United States and Canada), 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific (Australia, Japan, etc.). 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online. -
Traffic
www.infoplease.comOn July 8, 1997, Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day. -
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Illegally Downloaded
www.infoplease.comIt's estimated that Internet users illegally download about 2.6 billion music files each month. -
Another Worm
www.infoplease.comnternet Worm, called MyDoom or Novarg, spreads through Internet servers. About 1 in 12 email messages are infected. -
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