Timeline: Cole's History of the internet timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA)

Found a way 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 hostson what would one day become the internet

Jan 1, 1970

An Arpanet network was established

Network between Harvard, MIT. and BBN 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

Jan 1, 1974

The beginning of TCP/IP

A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into so-called "inter-networks" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol

Jan 1, 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

Jan 1, 1978

Spam is born

The first unsolicited commercial email message was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk

Oct 5, 1979

MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

the precursors to World of Warcraft and Second Life was devoloped in 1979 and was call Mud. Muds were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing-ames , interactive, fiction, and online chat.

Jan 1, 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 then the original -) proposed by MacKenzie

Oct 5, 1984

The domain name system was created

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

Jan 1, 1990

World Wide Web protocols finished

Teh 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, 1991

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