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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a 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 user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The first international connection to the ARPAnet system was created
The University of London became the first international university to connect to the then American ARPAnet system Source -
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 Motem 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 Theurk -
MUD-The earliest form of multiplayer 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 first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used. While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Falham in 1982 who proposed :-) 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 IP address automatically -
The Internet Worm Infects the Internet
A virus known as the Internet Worm attacked several computers across the country and shut down almost 10% of all computers in the world Source -
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
This brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was -
The first picture is uploaded to the internet
The first picture was uploaded to the internet featuring a picture of a comedy band known as the Les Horrible Cernettes Source -
The first online bank is created
The Stanford Federal Credit Union was the first bank to use online banking and allowing transactions to be performed electronically Source -
The first phone with internet access is produced
The Nokia 9000 communicator was the first phone produced with internet access; however, due to high operator costs, the phone's capabilities were extremely limited Source -
The creation of Wikipedia
The partners of Larry Sangers and Jimmy Wales launched wikpedia.com- a free-to-edit, open content online encyclopedia Source -
Myspace is created
The first social media site, Myspace, was created after the founders discovered the power of the Friendster concept. Myspace would go on to become one of the first popular social media sites and allow the creation of several similar sites in the future. Source -
Youtube is founded
On this day, Chad Hurley put the trademark on the website "Youtube" and soon set up a small company to work on the beta of youtube.com Source -
The first video is uploaded to Youtube
The first video called "Me at the zoo" was uploaded to Youtube by a cofounder of the site, Jawed Karim. Source -
The first video on Youtube hits 1 billion views
The music video of "Gagnam Style" from Psy became the first video on Youtube to surpass 1 billion views and then went on to be the first video to surpass 2 billion views 1 and half years later Source
