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The first real network started in 1969 and ran on packet switching. October 29 69 the first computers connected (Stanford and UCLA) first message was meant to be “Login” but computer crashed at letter “g”.
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Unix was an operating system that design heavily influenced Linux and FreeBSD (operating systems most popular with today’s web hosting services)
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Email was first developed by ray Tomlinson who made the decision to use the “@” symbol that was used to separate the user name from the computer name (later on became the domain name)
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Was when project Gutenberg was started by Michael hart. Gutenberg started to create a site that could have books and documents available electronically for free it was the birth of ebook.
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France started to create its on project similar to the Arpanet project its name was Cyclades. Even though Cyclades was shut down the project did pioneer a key idea the host computer should be responsible for data transmission rather than the network its self.
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Email accounted for 75% of all Arpanet network activity.
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Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection with the university college of London
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Was a break through year? A proposal was published to link Arpa like networks to create a “inter-network” which would have no central control and work around a transmission protocol.
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With the popularity of emailing, the first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California in 1975. The biggest technological advance this program (called MSG) made was the addition of "Reply" and "Forward" functionality.
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This was a big year for the development we now it today. It was the first PC modem this was initially sold to computer hobbyists developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington
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This was the year of the first bulletin board system (BBS) that was developed during a blizzard in Chicago
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Spam(Named spam later on) was born it was the first unsolicited commercial email message, sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life and was called mud
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Enquire software
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The first emoticon was born
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January 1, 1983 was the deadline for Arpanet computers to switch over to the TCP/IP protocols designed by Vinton Cerf.
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the development of The WELL ( this is short for Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), its one of the oldest virtual communities still in operation. It was developed by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant .
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One of the first major Internet worms it was Referred to as "The Morris Worm" it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet.
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brought about the proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee. It was written to persuade CERN that a global hypertext system was in CERN’s best interest. It was originally called "Mesh"; the term "World Wide Web" was coined while Berners-Lee was writing the code in 1990.
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Brought about the first commercial dial-up Internet provider. Also in the same year Arpanet ceased to exist.
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World wide web finished
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First page created
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First web cam
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Goverments come in on the new internet and gov and org are created
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First web mail created called HoTMiaL capital letters of homage
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The name “weblog” coined
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Google goes live
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Wikipeadia is launched
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“The” facebook is opened but only to college students later “the” is dropped but the URL still works
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Youtube is launched
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The iphone and the mobile web.
