History of the Internet By facebooker_1508587082777302 Jan 29, 1950 Developement of electrionic computers Period: Jan 29, 1950 to Jan 29, 2016 History Feb 1, 1957 The Soviets launched Sputnik, first earth satellite, into space which would lead to advances in computer technology. Feb 1, 1958 NASA was formed which focused mainly on computer science Jan 29, 1960 ARPANET was formed which was world's first multi-site computer network. Feb 1, 1969 Telnet was created for logging in over a network Feb 1, 1969 The Unix was cretaed which was an operating system whose design influenced other operating systems later on . Jan 29, 1971 Email was first developed by Ray Tomilson, who also created the @ sign Feb 1, 1973 Arpanet made its first trans -atlantic connection with the Univeristy of London Jan 29, 1978 SPAM or the first commercial email messages were sent out to 600 users Jan 29, 1982 The first emoticon was created :-) by Scott Fahlman as a joke Feb 1, 1984 The Domain name system was created to make internet more human friendly. Feb 1, 1987 The internet expanded from 1,000 hosts to eventually 30,000 Feb 1, 1991 The first web page was created, which explained what the world wide web was. Feb 1, 1991 Also the First web cam was created and used in Cambridge University Feb 1, 1998 Google began for the first time Feb 1, 2001 Wikipedia launched which paved the way for social media Feb 1, 2003 MySpace became the most popular social networking site Feb 1, 2004 Facebook is finally launched and was only avaliable to college students Feb 1, 2005 YouTube is launched for the first time Feb 1, 2006 Twitter is finally launched which was inspired by flickr Feb 1, 2007 The first Iphones come out which renewed intrest in the moblie web
