Nhu Dinh's History of the Internet Timeline

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

Jan 1, 1962

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

Oct 29, 1969

The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.

An Arpanet network was established

Jan 1, 1970

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

Jan 1, 1971

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

Jan 1, 1974

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).

Microsoft was founded

Jan 1, 1975

http://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Apple Computers, Inc. was founded

Apr 1, 1976

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html
Jobs and Wozniak started out building the Apple I in Jobs' garage and sold them without a monitor, keyboard, or casing (which they decided to add on in 1977). The Apple II revolutionized the computer industry with the introduction of the first-ever color graphics.1 Sales jumped from $7.8 million in 1978 to $117 million in 1980, the year Apple went public.

The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented

Jan 1, 1977

The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.

Spam is born

Jan 1, 1978

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

Jan 1, 1979

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 :-)

Jan 1, 1982

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

Jan 1, 1984

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

Jan 1, 1990

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

Jan 1, 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.

Yahoo! was founded

Jan 1, 1994

https://info.yahoo.com/about-us
Yahoo is the world's largest start-up; founded in 1994 by two Stanford PhD candidates.

Amazon was founded

Jul 16, 1995

http://www.biography.com/people/jeff-bezos-9542209#pioneering-e-commerce
After inviting 300 friends to beta test the site, Jeff Bezos opened Amazon.com, named after the meandering South American River, on July 16, 1995.

Google was founded

Sep 4, 1998

https://www.google.com/about/company/
Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages.

Skype was founded

Aug 1, 2003

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2327
In August 2003 Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas ZennströmOffsite Link, Janus FriisOffsite Link, and the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu launched the peer-to-peer voice over Internet ProtocolOffsite Link (VOIP) telephony service, SkypeOffsite Link. The name of the company evolved from "Sky peer-to-peer" or "Skyper." However some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken, so the final "r" was dropped leaving "Skype," for which domain names were available.

Facebook was founded

Feb 4, 2004

https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info?tab=page_info
Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

YouTube was founded

May 1, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
Launched in May 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.

Twitter was founded/ First tweet posted

Mar 21, 2006

http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280#creation-of-twitter
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, the company's chief executive officer, posted the world's first tweet: "just setting up my twttr."

Instagram was founded

Oct 6, 2010

http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-founders-instagram.html
Just after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Instagram, the photo-sharing app he'd created with Mike Krieger, was open to the world.