Eddie Schillinger's History of The Internet Timeline

By ESchillinger
  • Advanced Reseach Projects Agency is Created

    Advanced Reseach Projects Agency is Created

    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attacks.
  • Computers at Standford/UCLA connect for the first time

    Computers at Standford/UCLA connect for the first time

    The first hosts on what would later become the internet
  • Arpanet network was established

    Arpanet network was established

    A network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN was created
  • Email was first developed

    Email was first developed

    Developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971
  • The Start of TCP/IP

    The Start of TCP/IP

    Linked networks into so called "inter-networks" which would have no central control and would work around a trasmission control protocal
  • The first PC was invented

    The first PC was invented

    The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington. It was originally sold to computer hobbyists.
  • Spam was born

    Spam was born

    Spam was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk
  • The Earliest Multiplayer Games were Debuted

    The Earliest Multiplayer Games were Debuted

    The precursor of WOW and Second life was developed
  • The First Emoticon Was Created :-)

    The First Emoticon Was Created :-)

    Kevin MacKenzie invented the first emoticon in 1982
  • Doman name System was Created

    Doman name System was Created

    DomaIn Name Servers (DNS) were created. It made addresses on the internet for human-friendly.
  • The Internet Worm Virus is Born

    The Internet Worm Virus is Born

    Internet Worm VirusA virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.

  • World Wide Web Protocols Finished

    Written by Tim Berners-Lee along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, URL'S.
  • First Web Page Created

    First Web Page Created

    Brought major innovations to the internet. First page consisted of mostly HTML links.
  • White House launches first website

    White House launches first website

    Whitehousewww.whitehouse.gov
  • eBay

    eBay

    eBayIt was founded in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.
  • Google is Created

    Google is Created

    GoogleGoogle began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP).
  • Wikipedia is Created

    Wikipedia is Created

    WikipediaWiki is created.
  • Runescape is Created

    Runescape is Created

    RunescapeRuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio.
  • Facebook was Published

    Facebook was Published

    Facebookhttp://www.ask.com/question/what-year-was-facebook-created was Created by Mark Zuckerburg in his college Dormroom
  • YouTube was Created

    YouTube was Created

    YoutubeYoutube was first Created. It was later purchased by Google in 2006 http://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
  • XBOX 360

    XBOX 360

    XBOX 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console developed by and produced for Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox
  • Twitter was first Created

    Twitter was first Created

    Twitter The first tweet ever sent was "Just setting up my twttr" by the creator Jack Dorsey