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A TX-2 computer in MIT was connected to another computer located in California using a low speed dial up telephone line.
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Arpaned linled four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, Standfor Research Institute, Unioversity of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. The network was wired via 50 kbps circuits. The first message sent across the network was "Login", but crashed when the letter "G" was typed in.
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NCP allowed connections and flow between processes running on different computer hosts
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Ray Tomison created what was to become the standard internet email address format, using the @ sign to separate user names from hosts.
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A proposal was published to connect Arpa-like networks together into so-called "inter-networks" which would have no central control.
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The development of the first personal computer modem was done by Dennis Hayes. Initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The appearance of BBS also supposed the Spam birth.
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Also emoticons were created by Scott Fahlman by suggesting the use of =) and =( to convey emotions to other users.
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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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IRC paved away for real-time chat and the instant messaging programs we use today.
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Tim Berners-Lee wrote the code for the World Wide Web, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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First graphical web browser for the general public was introduced. Also in the same year marked the beginning of the .gov and .org domain extensions for government and UN uses.
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The first webmail service to launch on the Internet.
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Google is brought online, revolutionising the way people search for information.
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Provided one of the first websites that paved the way for collective web content generation.
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Skype is release to the public, giving a user friendly interface to voice over IP calling.
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Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg.
