History Of The Internet, Aidan McGray

  • ARPA

    ARPA
    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
  • A new Link

    A new Link
    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.
  • Email

    Email
    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)
  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP
    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).
  • An Evolution

    An Evolution
    Steve Jobs created the first Apple desktop, the Apple II.
    https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/the-evolution-of-apple-design-between-1977-2008/
  • The First PC

    The First PC
    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.
  • Stupid Spam

    Stupid Spam
    Spam is born The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • The birth of Online Gaming

    The birth of Online Gaming
    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.
  • The First Portable Computer

    The First Portable Computer
    The Osborn 1 was created in 1981 and weighed a whole 24 pounds!
    https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383022,00.asp
  • Emoji:)

    Emoji:)
    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.
  • The Birth of the Internet

    The Birth of the Internet
    On January 1st, 1983, ARPANET adopted TCP/IP, making the first "internet" for the government, but it was not open to the public yet.
    http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internet
  • The first Desktop

    The first Desktop
    The first desktop was invented.
    https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
  • Domain Name System

    Domain Name System
    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.
  • World Wide

    World Wide
    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.
  • First Web Page

    First Web Page
    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.
  • A Cyber Empire

    A Cyber Empire
    In July 1994, Amazon books was launched as an online library where you can oder books to your house, now they sell every kind of product even food. And have bought multiple companies and are one of the largest companies in the world
    http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-facts-2017-4
  • Open to the public

    Open to the public
    By the late 80's, early 90's, there was already ISPs (Commercial Internet Service Providers) on the internet. In 1990 ARPANET was decommissioned and five years later in 1995 the internet was made open to the public.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
  • Google

    Google
    Google announces its search engine to the people.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
  • MySpace

    MySpace
    MySpace was released August 1, 2003 and became the largest social network of its time.
    http://socialsaleshq.com/the-history-of-myspace/
  • The Creation of FaceBook

    The Creation of FaceBook
    FaceBook was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and it was released for college students like him
    http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    Youtube was launched and has billions of videos and users involved with the platform now.