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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
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 procesor" 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 seperate the user name from the computer name (which later on 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 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 laptop is created
Laptop info
The first laptop was created by Adam Osborne. It was called the 'Osborne 1' and cost $1795. -
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. -
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. -
Google comes online
Google comes online
Google first came online using the Stanford website, but on this day they officially registered google.com as a domain. -
iTunes is created
iTunes bio
iTunes was originally called SoundJam MP, but it was bought by Apple and renamed. It added the ability to burn CDs, simplified the user interface, and removed the recording feature. -
Facebook comes online
Facebook is created
In 2004, Facebook was created as 'the facebook', a place for freshmen at Harvard to see staff and student proflies. -
YouTube comes online
YouTube bio
YouTube was created by 3 former paypal employees who wanted to share videos from a dinner party, -
Reddit comes online
Reddit bio
Reddit is created as an "online bulliten board" system where users can share content about various topics. -
Twitter comes online
Twitter bio
Twitter was created by members of the podcasting company Odeo in a day-long brainstorming session. -
Tumblr comes online
Tumblr bio
Tumblr was created by David Karp and Marco Arment as a short-form blogging platform. -
Imgur comes online
Imgur bio
Imgur was originally created as an image hosting website for Reddit, but after its popularity skyrocketed it became a host for popular content on the web with its own base of users. -
Pinterest comes online
Pinterest bio
The first prototype of Pinterest was launched to family and friends of the creators in March 2010.
