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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
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
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 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 is 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 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. -
ESPN
ESPN
ESPN is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite television channel. To watch it use must use the internet. -
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 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
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
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. -
Amazon interent shopping
Amazon
Amazon was orginally used for selling books online through the internet. Now it is used today for selling many different items. -
ebay
Ebay
Ebay is an aution website which allows the user to bid on items. Without the internet there would be no actuion website. -
Netflix
Netflix
Netflix was creted so people could watch movies, tvs shows and lisetn to music for an amount of money. To be able to get all of the feautures the internet is neded. -
The day Google was created
Google
Google is a serch engine that allows users to search for whatever they want on the internet -
Skype internet video and voice calling
Skype
Skype allows people to voice call other people across the world using the internet -
Facebook
facebook
Facebook was one of the first major social media sites. To access the site you need the internet. -
Youtube
Youtube
Youtube was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. It allows people to upload videos using the internet -
twitter
Twitter
Twitter is a social media site that allows people to write a 140 charcter tweet that goes to people that are follwing you. If there was no internet there would be no twitter. -
The iphone changing technolgy for ever
Iphone
The Iphone allowed people to use the interent on the go. They could access it the interent through wi-fi or mobile data.
