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The satellite, known as Sputnik, did not do much: It tumbled aimlessly around in outer space, sending blips and bleeps from its radio transmitters as it circled the Earth.
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Computers talk to each other in case of 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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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 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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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.
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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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Tim Berners-Lee invented what became the World Wide Web in 1989. It had to go somewhere, so for a while, the whole thing lived on his Next computer.
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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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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.
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Beginning in 1991, Cambridge University successfully implemented the first webcam on its own local network. Its sole purpose was to monitor a coffee pot to see how much coffee was left.
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It wasn't until 1992, when Congress passed the Scientific Advanced Technology Act, that commercial interests were allowed online.
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It later became Netscape. Mosaic offered a user-friendly way to search the Web: It allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time and to navigate using scrollbars and clickable links
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The ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage.
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the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.
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Today, 100Mbps download speeds are available in many parts of the country.
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Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”.
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Curiously, US-occupied Iraq and Israel were unaffected.
