School

By 09swwatts

  • Create ARPA

    President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.

  • UCLA

    Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching

  • Internet Concept

    J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept

  • Paul Baran

    Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks,"

  • Email

    Email was first invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson

  • PC Modem

    the year the first PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.

  • Spam is born

    the year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.

  • MUD

    The earliest form of multiplayer games

  • Usenet

    internet-based discussion system

  • Internet

    The word Internet was used for the first time

  • The first emotion :)

    modern emoticon was born

  • Arpanet computers switch over to TCP/IP

    switch over to the TCP/IP protocols

  • William Gibson

    William Gibson writes "Neuromancer.

  • Domain Name System (DNS)

    addresses on the Internet more human-friendly

  • Virtual communities

    The most influential online community in the world

  • Youtube invented

    Youtube was invented in 2005 by 3 employee's of PayPal.