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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computeres 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 is disabled
Network between Harvard, MIT and BBN (the company that created the "interface messade 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 seperate the user name from the computer (which later on became the domain name) -
Computers can connect more freely and easily
Computers are used more freelyThe first demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines goes underway, and the Internetworking Working Group (INWG) was created to adress the need for establishing agreed upon protocols. -
Global networking becomes a reality
Global NetworkingThe first international connections to the ARPANET between the University of London (England) and the Royal Radar Establishment (Norway). -
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 was 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 precurser 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. -
BITNET started as a coorperative network at the City University of New York with the first connection to Yale
BITNETBITNET (Because It's Time NETwork) provides electronic mail and listenerservers to distribute information, as well as file transfers. -
The 1st Emoticon :-)
The first emoticaon 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 it that it made adresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress automatically. -
The Power of Internet is realized
WWWMore than 5,000 hosts and 241 news groups have been created. NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computing power for all. -
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. -
1st web page is created
1991 brought some major innovations to the wotld of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what an email what email was, its purpose was to explain what the Wrld Wide Web was. -
Multimedia changes the face of the Internet
multimediaOne million hosts, 4,000 news groups have been crated. Internet (ISOC) is charted. -
Commercialisation begins
CommercitizationARPANET celebrates it's 25th Birthday. Shopping in malls and banks arrives to the internet. The US Senate and House provides information servers -
MIcrosoft becomes known
MIcrosoftThe WWW browser war begins, fought primarily between NETscape and Microsoft, has rushed a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions. -
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established
ARINThe American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the geographical ares handled by Network Solutions (InterNIC) Starting March 1998 -
Network Solutions register its 2 millionth domain on
network solutionsNetwork Solutions register its 2 millionth domian on. -
