Victoria's History of the Internet Timeline

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  • Adidas was created

    Adidas was created
    Adidas Adidas webpage came online providing online shopping and was created by Adolf Dassler

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

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

  • Nike was founded

    Nike was founded
    Nike Nike's webpage came online providing online shopping and was founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight

  • Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

    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

    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 was first developed

    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

    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 was founded

    Apple was founded
    Apple Apple's webpage came online providing an online store and was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.

  • The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented

    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

    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

    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 :-)
    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 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

    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

    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.

  • Food Network was founded

    Food Network was founded
    Food Network Food Network cam online providing recipes and ideas at your fingertips and was founded by Joe Langhan, Reese Schonfeld, and Jack Clifford

  • Amazon was created

    Amazon was created
    Amazon Amazon came online selling thousands of different items and was created by Jeff Bezos

  • Google was founded

    Google was founded
    Google Google's webpage was created being one of the first and best browser's to search online and was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park, CA.

  • Facebook was created

    Facebook was created
    Facebook Facebook came online allowing people to connect with friends worldwide and was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes

  • Youtube was created

    Youtube was created
    Youtube Youtube came online allowing people to upload videos and music for everyone to see and was created by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim

  • Twitter was created

    Twitter was created
    Twitter Twitter came online allwoing people to tweet thoughts and connect with others and was founded by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone in San Francisco, CA.

  • Instagram was created

    Instagram was created
    Instagram Instagram came online to allowing people to upload pictures and videos with people and of things they did and was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger