Timeline: Alexis Cannon's History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced research Projects Agency (ARPA) is Created

Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack

Oct 29, 1969

Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

The first hosts on what would one day become the internet

Jan 1, 1970

An Arpanet network was established

Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.

Jan 1, 1971

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).

Jan 1, 1974

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).

Jan 1, 1977

The first personal computer modem was invented

the modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dayle Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.

Jan 1, 1978

Spam is born

the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.

Jan 1, 1979

MUD the earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

the precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and it 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.

Jan 1, 1982

the first emoticon :-)

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.

Jan 1, 1984

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 addresses counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address. automatically.

Jan 1, 1990

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.

Jan 1, 1990

The Archie search engine went up.

This was the first search engine, paving the way for many more to come.
web search engine timeline

Jan 1, 1991

First web page created in 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.