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Researchers of Bell Labs invented a modem that changes digital signals to electrical signals and back.
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United States government creates Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to lead the work to develop it.
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American Standard Code for Information Exchange is developed. ASCII lets you to share data between two computers of different maufacturers
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Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Marill gets a contract to create the first wide-area network connection through long distant dial-up between a computer in Massachusetts and a computer in California.
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Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN.
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The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which connected four major universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah).
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January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added.
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Ray Tomlinson introduces network email. The Internetworking Working Group forms to address need for establishing standard protocols.
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates created a businees ro share thier intrests in camputers and to introduct their products to the public.The company was first called Traf-O-Data.
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Harvard student Bob Metcalfe's dissertation on "Packet Networks.", which is supposed to be a protocol for multiple local network. The dissertation was initially rejected by the University for not being analytical enough. It later won acceptance when he added some more equations to it.
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BENET connected IBM mainframes to educationaly communities and the world to create a mailing service.
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The word "internet" was used for the first time.
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A virus called internet worm shuts down approxmately 10% of the world's internet.
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The first really friendly interface to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota.
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Yahoo was created in Stanford University on January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
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Google open its first Hq in California.
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Wikipedia was created. Wikipedia is an online websites that allows people to post information about a specific topic.
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Facebook is a social network service that lets you chat and veiw other socil medias.
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Youtube was a video sharing site created by three formed paypal employees. On November 2006 its was bought by google for 1.56 billion US dollors.
