History of the Internet Timeline Megan Wilber By wilbmega Sep 13, 1950 The Government recieved first computer that stored memory Sep 13, 1958 Pesident Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA Dec 13, 1966 The ARPA project begins Oct 29, 1969 The first link of the Internet Sep 13, 1971 Ray Tomlinson created email Sep 13, 1971 eBooks was born Sep 13, 1977 An idea was published to link ARPA Sep 13, 1978 Spam was invented Sep 13, 1979 MUD is the first form of multiplayer games Sep 14, 1981 BITNET was the first easy working network from the University of New York to Yale Sep 14, 1982 First time the group of networks is seen as the Internet Sep 14, 1985 First domain Sep 14, 1985 Different types of internet connections are used at many Universities Sep 14, 1988 Morris worm is the first virus on the Internet Sep 14, 1991 First webcam and webpage were created Sep 14, 1993 First graphical web browser created Sep 14, 1994 Pizza Hut offers ordering on their webpage Sep 14, 1995 Internet was commercialized and Java/Javascript were introduced Sep 14, 1996 Hotmail was the start of many other email websites Sep 14, 1998 Google was put out into cyberworld and Napster was launched Sep 14, 2000 Bandwith increased Sep 14, 2000 Africa and the Middle East are starting to use the Internet Sep 14, 2004 Google and Yahoo are updated many times Sep 14, 2011 Smart phones are brought into our life