Timeline: mike humenik history of the internet

Jan 1, 1962

advance research project agency (ARPA)

found away that computersca talk to each other in case of nuclear attack

Oct 29, 1969

computers at standford and ucla conneted for the first time

the first hosts on what would on day become the internet

Jan 1, 1970

an arpanet network was established

network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company tha creaed the "interface massage processer" compputers usedto connet to the network)

Jan 1, 1971

Email was first developed

Developed Ray Tomlinson, who also made thedecision touse the @ symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which will become the domain name)

Jan 1, 1974

the begining of TCP/IP

A proposal was published to link arpa-like networks together into aso-called "inter-network" which would have a central control an would workaround a transmission control protocol (which eventrualy became TCP/IP)

Apr 1, 1976

apple

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Jan 1, 1977

the first personal computer modem is invented

the modem was invented by dennis hayes and dale Hetherington andwasintrodused and initially sold to computer hobbyists

Jan 1, 1978

spam was born

the fist unsolicited commercial email massage (later known as spam), was sent out to600 California apranet users by gary thuerk

Jan 1, 1979

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 words, combining elements of role-playing gams, interactive, fict on, an online chat

Jan 1, 1982

the first emoticon :-)

the fist emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin Mackenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was scott Fahlma in 1982 who proposed using :-) rather then the original -) proposed by MacKenzie

Jan 1, 1984

the domain name system was created

thefist domain nam servers(DNS) wascreated. thedomain nam system was important in that it made addresses on the internet morehuman-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts DNS servers allowedinternetuserstotype inan easy-to-remember domain name and then converted in to theIp address automatically

Jan 1, 1990

world wide web protocols finished

the code for the world wide web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, basedon his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs

Jan 1, 1991

first web page created

brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. thefist web page was created andmuch like the fist email explained what email was, its purpose wastoexplan what world wide web was.