Cianni's History of the Internet Timeline

  • 1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
    nuclear attack.
  • October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

    October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
    The first hosts on what would one day
    become the Internet.
  • 1970: An Arpanet network was established

    1970: 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.
  • 1971-Email was first developed

    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)
  • 1974- The beginning of TCP/IP

    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).
  • 1978- Spam is born

    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.
  • 1979- MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    1979- 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.
  • 1982- The first emoticon :-)

    1982- 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.
  • 1984: The domain name system was created

    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 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.
  • Aol

    Aol
    aol
  • 1990: World Wide Web protocols finished

    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.
  • 1991: First web page created 1991

    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.
  • yahoo

    yahoo
  • Ask.com

    Ask.com
    ask
  • Amazon

    Amazon
  • 1977- The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented

    1977- 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.
  • Google

    Google
  • Dictionary.com

    Dictionary.com
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
  • Myspace

    Myspace
  • Youtube

    Youtube
  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
  • Twitter

    Twitter
  • Bing

    Bing