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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 created
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. -
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.com was created
Amazon.com The world famous amazon.com was created. You can now go online and purchase almost anything. -
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Pandora Internet Radio created
Pandora Internet Radio This allows you to create a station based off of the song or artist you searched. The station will play songs that are some how related to the item searched. -
Facebook was created
Facebook The mighty powerful facebook was created by college student Mark Zuckerberg. This was my first social media account. -
Twitter was created
Twitter was created Twitter was created and now you can tweet your problems to your followers...because they care oh so much about your problems -
First iPhone released
iPhone The first smartphone with a touch screen was released. Now you can access the internet from your phone. -
Google chrome was created
Google Chrome it was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows. This is the best internet browser there is -
First android released
HTC Dream The first smartphone with a touch screen that has the android operating system was created. You now have a better product to access the internet from -
Android Market Created
Android Market Now known as Google Play, as of March 6, 2012, the Android Market was created. This system is a way of downloading apps, music, books, etc -
First Samsung Galaxy
Samsung The best product ever created was released. Now samsung destroys the market with their amazing product where you can access the internet
