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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Found a way that computers could talk to each other in case of a 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 was established
Network between Harvard MIT, and BBN in 1970 was created -
Email was first established
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also created the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name (which later on became the domain name. -
The beginning of TCP/IP
The proposal was made 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. -
The first personal computer modem was invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, which was introduced initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam was 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 a multiplayer game was debuted
The precursor of World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (Multi-User 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 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 that in it made addresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet user to type an easy to remember domain name and than convert it to a domain name 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, and URLs. -
The first web page was created
The first web page 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. -
The launch of ESPN
The website was developed in 1993 and created with numerous section sand sports. Source -
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Launch of Ebay
Sites created for marketing between consumer-consumer and/or business to consumer. source -
The Launch of Netflix
Created for streaming media. Founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. source -
The Launch of Google
Created for internet services and products including search, advertising, etc.. Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. source -
The launch of RuneScape
Created as an MMORPG and was more advanced graphics and play style than MUD. [source}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneScape) -
The launch of Wikipedia
Created to edit and share knowledge. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger source -
The launch of MySpace
Created as a social network which many social networks today base off of. source -
Launch of Youtube
Created for users to share content. Founded by employees of Paypal.[Source}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) -
The Launch of Pintrest
Social media site used to share different interest and ideas such as fashion. source
