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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computes can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
computers at Stanford and UCLA connect for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet -
An arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" was created. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson who made the decision to use the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link arpa like networks together -
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 hobbiests -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message was send out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD - The earliest form of multiplayer games is debuted
The precursor of war of warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and it was called MUD (multiuser dungeon) MUDS were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of roleplay games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emotocon
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 :-) as a joke rather than the original -) -
The domain name system was created
The first domain name serves (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 an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address 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, HTTP, and URL's -
First Web Page created
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. -
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