nick hall - history of the internet timeline

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  • 1962 - ARPA

    1962 - ARPA
    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
  • 1969 - UCLA

    1969 - UCLA
    computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
  • 1970 - ARPANET

    1970 - ARPANET
    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.
  • 1971 - @

    1971 - @
    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)
  • 1974 - TCP/IP

    1974 - TCP/IP
    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).
  • 1977 TCP/IP

    1977 TCP/IP
    central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP).
  • 1978 - SPAM

    1978 - SPAM
    Spam is born The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • 1979 - MUD

    1979 - MUD
    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.
  • 1982 - EMOTICON

    1982 - EMOTICON
    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.
  • 1984 - DNS

    1984 - DNS
    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.
  • 1990 URL

    1990 URL
    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.
  • February 19, 1990 adobe photoshop was made

    February 19, 1990 adobe photoshop was made
  • 1991 WEB PAGE INFORMATION

    1991 WEB PAGE INFORMATION
    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.
  • September 4, 1998 google was made

    September 4, 1998 google was made
  • August 1, 2003 myspace was made

    August 1, 2003 myspace was made
  • September 12, 2003 steam valve corp. was released

    September 12, 2003 steam valve corp. was released
  • February 4, 2004 facebook was made

    February 4, 2004 facebook was made
  • February 14, 2005 youtube was made

    February 14, 2005 youtube was made
  • 2006 roblox was made

    2006 roblox was made
  • March 21, 2006 twitter was made

    March 21, 2006 twitter was made
  • 2010 instagram was made

    2010 instagram was made
  • september 2011 snapchat was made

    september 2011 snapchat was made
  • October 7, 2011 minecraft was made

    October 7, 2011 minecraft was made