Cooper Grabowski The Internet

The ARPA

1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.

First School Computers

Oct 29, 1969

Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.

The Arpanet

1970

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

1971

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)

TCP/IP

1974

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).

Send

1976

Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.

Personal Computer

1977

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

1978

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

1979

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.

Emoticons

1982

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.

Domain name system

1984

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.

NSFNET contract awarded

1988

An NSFNET contract is awarded to the team of IBM and MCI, led by Merit Network, Inc. The initial 1.5-megabits-per-second NSFNET is placed in operation. http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3736

URLs

1990

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.

The First Website

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.

Yahoo

1994

Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The company was later incorporated in March 1995. http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

Java

1995

Netscape introduces JavaScript, initially called LiveScript. JavaScript, not to be confused with the JAVA programming language, is an object-oriented language that is interpreted by a web browser as the page loads (rather than by a web server, or by being compiled prior to the loading of the page). http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3736

Google

1996

Google was invented http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

The first Meme

1996

A 3D animation dubbed "The Dancing Baby" becomes one of the first viral videos.

Microsoft gets Involved

1996

The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions. http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

Internet Adresses

1998

The Internet Protocol version 6 introduced, to allow for future growth of Internet Addresses. The current most widely used protocol is version 4. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses allowing for 4.3 billion unique addresses; IPv6, with 128-bit addresses, will allow 3.4 x 1038 unique addresses, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3736

Facebook

2004

Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser. http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

Youtube

2005

YouTube.com launches. http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

Reddit

2005

The social news site Reddit is founded. http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html