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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the internet.
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Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN in 1970 was created.
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the username from the computer name.
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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.
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyist.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message, was sent out to 600 California Arpenet users by Gary Thuerk
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD. MUDs were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and chat online.
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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 -) propoed by Mackenzie.
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The first Domain Name Servers 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.
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The code for the World Wide Web wa written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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The first web page was created and, much like the first email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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About 45 million people are using the internet, with roughly about 30 million people using the internet in the United State and 15 million using the internet in European Nations.
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Google opens its first office in California.
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Wikipedia is created.
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As of January 2002, 58% of the United States population uses the internet.
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It's estimated that about 2.6 billion music files are illegally downloaded every month. Spam becomes a server-clogging menace.
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MyDoom and Novarg are become internet worms. Every 1 in 10 emails are infected by these viruses.
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Youtube.com is launched.
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About 92 million websites are on the internet.
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Legal online music download triple to 6.7 million downloads a week.
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A coding error was discovered in April in OpenSSL, encryption software that made purchases with a computer and another website made it so all their personal information was leaked.
