Rowen Cristianson timeline

By R Christianson

  • first videogame created

    first videogame created
    <a href='http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm'
    Physicist William Higinbotham created a pong like videogame

  • advanced reaearch projects agency\ ARPANET

    advanced reaearch projects agency\ ARPANET
    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack

  • Computers at Stanford and UCLA were connected for the first time

    Computers at Stanford and UCLA were connected for the first time
    The first hosts on what would one day become the internet

  • an arpanet network established

    an arpanet network established
    Network between Hartford, MIT, and BBN in 1970 was created.

  • Email was first developed

    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 Personal Computer Modem is Invented

    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

    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

    MUD
    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 :-)
    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 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.

  • mobile computers

    mobile computers
    laptop linkThe first mobile computers were able to acess internet

  • World Wide Web protocols finished

    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

    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.

  • match.com is created

    match.com is created
    match.com is madethe first internet dating site is creaated

  • Internet explorer

    Internet explorer
    explorer linkWindows creates the first browser, inernet explorer 1.0

  • first web auctions take place

    first web auctions take place
    auction linkAuctionweb, or as we now know it, ebay sold the first items online

  • social media is invented

    social media is invented
    social media link The most used form of communication is invented

  • google was created

    google was created
    google history
    One of the most popular search engines today was registered as a domain.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook linkFacebook, a popular site to share yourself is created

  • Youtube was created

    Youtube was created
    Youtube linkThe most popular site to share videos is created

  • Snapchat is created

    Snapchat is created
    snapchat pageone of the mast popular apps for social media is made.