-
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
They found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack -
Period: to
The history of the internet
-
Stanford and UCLA computers are connected for the first time
The two hosts connected, this would eventually go on to be the internet as we know it. -
Arpanet network is established
A network that is between Harvard, MIT, and BBN is created in 1970. BBN was the company that created the "interface message processor" computers that were used to connect the networks. -
Email is first developed
The email was developed by Ray Tomlinson, Tomlinson also made the decison to use the @ symbol which was used to seperate the user name from the computer name. -
TCP/IP begins
A proposal is published in order to link Arpa-like networks together into what is called a "inter-network" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol which would eventually become TCIP/IP -
Apple sells their fist computer
Apple invents their first computer created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. -
The first personal Computer modem is invented
Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington were the inventors and they introduced this modern to computer hobbyists and would eventually sell it to them. -
Spam is born
600 Calfornia Arpanet users recieved the first unsolicted commercial email messege which would go on to be known as spam. -
MUD (The earliest form of multiplayer games were created
The precursor of World of Warcraft and Second Life were developed, it was called Multiuser Dunegon or MUD for short. MUDs were entirely text based om virtual worlds combining elements of role playing games, interative, and online chat. -
Online Shopping created
Michael Aldrich starts the trend of online shopping when he conncected a 26 inch colored television to a processing computer. -
The first laptop is invented
The first laptop is invented by Adam Osbourne and is called the Osbourne 1. -
The first emoticon
The first emoticon was used, many people give the credit to Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the first emoticon in 1979 but it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 whi used the symbols after a joke rather then the original symbol which was created by MacKenzie. -
The domain name system was created
The first Domain name servers or DNS was created. This domain name server was important because it made adresses on the internet more human freindly compared to its IP adress counterparts. These DND servers allowed an Internetnusers to tpe in an easy to remember domain name and then they converted it to the IP adress automatically. -
World Wide web protocals are finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal which came the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URL's. -
First web page is created
The first web page is created, this web page brought some innovations to the world of the Internet. The first was created just like how the first email was created and its purpose was to show what the World Wide Web exactly was. -
Online Banking is Created
Presidential Savings Bank offers a different and alternative way to bank when they offered customers to be able acess banking online. -
Google is founded
The popular search engine is co founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. -
Xbox Live Created
The online feature on an Xbox which allows you to play online multiplayer called Xbox Live is created. -
Facebook is founded
The online social networking site Facebook is founded by Harvard grad Mark Zuckerberg -
Youtube is Founded
The online video site Youtube is founded by three former Pay Pal Co-workers and employees. -
Twitter is Founded
The popular social network site Twitter is founded by and created by Jack Dorsey -
Oovoo is created
The popular video chatting site is invented.
