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1957- the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit.
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. -
1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
Computers talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
1970: An Arpanet network was established
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. -
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 (which later on became the domain name) -
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 central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
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. -
1978- Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
1979- MUD – 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. -
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. -
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. -
1989- The entire World Wide Web used to be just one computer.
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. -
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. -
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. -
1991- first ever webcam was used to watch a pot of coffee.
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. -
1992- Commercial activity online used to be explicitly banned
It wasn't until 1992, when Congress passed the Scientific Advanced Technology Act, that commercial interests were allowed online. -
1992- a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic
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 -
1994- first ever banner ad invaded the Internet
The ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage. -
1998-
the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever. -
2005- the broadband internet had a maximum speed of 2 Megabits per second.
Today, 100Mbps download speeds are available in many parts of the country. -
2005- the first ever Youtube video was uploaded.
Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”. -
2008- 5 deep-sea cables that provided Internet connectivity to the Middle East were cut.
Curiously, US-occupied Iraq and Israel were unaffected.
