Timeline: Dan Frascella's History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency

Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack

Oct 29, 1969

Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the 1st time

The first hosts on what would one day become the internet

Jan 1, 1970

An Arpanet network was established

Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN 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 (domain name)

Jan 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 centeral control and would work around transmission control protocol (eventually became TCP/IP)

Jan 1, 1975

Microsoft founded

Microsoft released date

Apr 1, 1976

Apple founded

Apple Founded On April 1st 1976 Apple was founded

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 was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk

Jan 1, 1979

MUD

The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (MultiUser Dungeon) MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing hames, interactive, fiction, and online chat

Jan 1, 1982

First Emoticon :-)

The first emoticon was used while many people credit Keven MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon n 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie

Jan 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 Interned users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically

Jan 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