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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 (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
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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)
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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 (which eventually became TCP/IP).
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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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.
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Mitchell Tuchman invented Net Market
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The word “Internet” is used for the first time.
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. 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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.com, .org, and .edu. all established
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A virus shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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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.
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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. Link
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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 -) proposed by MacKenzie. Link
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. It's main purpose was to introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary. White house website info
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Invented by Jeff Bezos
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Pierre Omidyar a French-born Iranian-American invented eBay
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Invented by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They named it google after Googol which means number 1 followed by 100 zeros Link
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58.5% of the U.S. population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. 544.2 Million worldwide users Link
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YouTube was invented by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Bought by google in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars. Link
