Barb Favuzzi's History of The Internet Timeline

By bfavuzzi
  • ARPA is created

    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

    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).
  • When apple was created

    When apple was created

    apple.com Apple was created by Steve Jobs and he invented the Iphones, macs and many more.
  • 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.
  • When google was created

    When google was created

    Google.com Google was made so that you could look up information, pictures and videos.
  • When Wikepedia was created

    When Wikepedia was created

    wikiepedia.com Wikepedia is used so they people can look up information and is an internet browser. Everyone uses wiki.
  • When was Myspace created

    When was Myspace created

    myspace.com Myspace is a social media where you can chat with different people and it came before facebook and is like the same thing.
  • When Facebook was created

    When Facebook was created

    facebook.com Facebook was used so that people around the worl could interact.
  • When Youtube was created

    When Youtube was created

    youtube.com Youtube was made so that people on the internet could look up different videos and music.
  • When Twitter was created

    When Twitter was created

    twitter.comhttps://twitter.com/ Twitter is a social media where people can tweet about what they are doing. At first twitter was made for famous people, but now everyone has it.
  • When Tumblr was created

    When Tumblr was created

    tumblr.com
    Tumblr is a blog to share different photos with your friends and followers.
  • When Instagram was created

    When Instagram was created

    instagram.com Instagram is another social media and is meant so that people can follow eachother and share their pictures.
  • When Vine was created

    When Vine was created

    vine.co
    Vine was made so that people of all ages can make short videos and post them. They are only a few seconds long and there are people who have became famous because of this.