History

History of the internet-Dylan Diede

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet

    created a new network of computers by the government
  • Unix

    Unix

    Heavily influenced the operating systems most commonly used today.
  • Email

    Email

    Ray Tomlinson developed email
  • Beginning of TCP/IP

    Beginning of TCP/IP

    linked all the networks together and worked around a control protocol which eventually became TCP/IP
  • The PC Modem

    The PC Modem

    The first PC modem was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington.
  • Spam

    Spam

    Gary Thuerk sent out an email to 600 California Arpanet users.
    Spam was born...
  • MUD

    MUD

    The earlist form of multiplayer games.
  • Emoticon

    Emoticon

    Scott Fahlman used the first emoticon in 1982 who used :-) after a joke.
  • Domain Name System (DNS)

    Domain Name System (DNS)

    Domain name system made adresses on the Internet more human friendly than the numerical IP adresses.
  • AOL is launched

    AOL is launched

    AOL made the Internet popular amongst average users.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners Lee along with HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
  • First web page created

    First web page created

    The first web page was created, and it explained what the World Wide Web was.
  • MP3

    MP3

    Mp3 file format was accepted as the standard
  • The first webcam

    The first webcam

    The first web cam was used in Cambridge University computer lab to watch coffe pots and how full they were.
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic

    The first graphical web browser was released for the general public.
  • Google

    Google

    Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way people surfed the web.
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    The Facebook was created for college students but later the The was dropped and it was open to everyone,
  • the IPhone and Mobile Web

    the IPhone and Mobile Web

    The IPhone was created and renewed an interest in the mobile web applications and designs.