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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) was created -
Email was first developed
Devloped 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). -
First PC created
PC
The first personal computer created was the Kenbak-1 created by John Blankenbaker. -
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) -
Apple Mac Project started
Mac
The "Macintosh" (which also happens to be another type of apple) was started in 1976 with an average Apple employee who wanted a cheap, user-friendly computer. -
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 invetion of the emoticon in 1979. It was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) propsed by MacKenzie. -
The domain name system was created
The first Doman Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more huamn-friendly compare 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 adress automatically. -
First Minesweeper on computer
Minesweeper Minesweeper was first a game called cube. Cube was first launched on computers in 1985. -
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, MTTP, and URLs. -
Microsoft Windows 3.0 released
(Scrolling down to Decline) The Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released to public which decreased the popularity of the Mac. This was the start of the Windows vs. Mac game. -
First web page created
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. -
Google is started!
Google's history Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch the Google site as a domain -
Steam launched for Betas
SteamSteam the online video game distribution for small companies to a bigger market was tested by betas. -
Facebook!
FacebookFacebook was one of the first main social networking service founded by Mark Zuckerburg. There is a movie on this. -
YouTube was born
YouTubeThe creators Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim created YouTube, a website to watch and share videos -
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Internet in Outerspace
ISSThe first low-orbit internet connection from outer space was when one of the astronaunts from the International Space Station (ISS) updated his twitter account.
