Timeline: Computer facts

Jun 1, 1962

ARPA

found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nucular attack

Oct 29, 1970

computer at stanford and UCLA connect for the first time

The first hosts on what would one day become the internet

Jun 1, 1971

Emil was first deveopled

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)

Jun 1, 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 control and would work around a tensmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP)

Jun 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.

Jun 1, 1978

Spam is bron

The first unsolicited commercial email message (later know as spam) was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk

Jun 1, 1979

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.

Jun 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 than the original -) proposed by
MacKenzie.

Jun 1, 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.

Jun 1, 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

Jun 1, 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.