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THE INTERNET IS BORN
The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/04/dayintech_0407</a>
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THE INTERNET
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UNIX IS CREATED
The opersating system most popular in today's web servers/web hosting servies. -
EMAIL WAS CREATED
Email was fire developed in 1971, by Ray Romlinson. -
The first Tans-Atlandtic connection and the popularity of emailing
Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection in 1973 -
beginning of TCP/IP
Decide there would be no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol. -
FIRST EMAIL CLIENT WAS CREATED
Firs modern email program was created, had the "reply" and "forwards" functionality -
FIRST PC MODEM
the year the first PC modem, Developed by DennisHayes and Dale Heaterington -
Bulletin Board System
the first bulletin board system was developed during a blizzard in Chicago in 1978. -
FREAKING SPAM
year that brough the first unsolicited commercail email message, sent out to 600 calidfornia arpanet users by Gary Thurerk. -
The earliest form of multiplayer games
MUDS were entriely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fictions, and online chat. -
THE FIRST EMOTICON
Kevin Mackenzie with invention of the emoticion in 1979, it was Scott Fahman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the - ) proposed by MacKenzie. -
Domain Name System (DNS)
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. -
THE INTERNET GROWS
nearly 30k host on the Internet. -
1988 IRC - Internet Relay Chat
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FIRST Major Malicious internet-based attack
The Morris Worm, it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet. -
AOL is Launched
Made the internet popular amongst the average internet users. -
WORLD WEB INTERNET PROTOCOLS
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 commercial dial-up ISP
Brought the first commercial dial-up internet provider, The World. -
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. -
MP3 becomes a standard
MP3 files, being highly compressed, later become a popular file format to share songs and entire albums via the internet. -
MP3 files, being highly compressed, later become a popular file format to share songs and entire albums via the internet.
One of the more interesting developments of this era, though, was the first webcam. It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot. -
Mosaic – first graphical web browser for the general public
The first widely downloaded Internet browser, Mosaic, was released in 1993. While Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser, it is considered the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies. -
Commercialization of the internet
First, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption was developed by Netscape, making it safer to conduct financial transactions (like credit card payments) online. In addition, two major online businesses got their start the same year. The first sale on "Echo Bay" was made that year. Echo Bay later became eBay. Amazon.com also started in 1995, though it didn’t turn a profit for six years, until 2001. -
Internet 2
The internet 2, which includes 34 Universities is a massive prject including tons of organizations, which can be found here: http://www.internet2.edu/communities-groups/members/ -
First web-based (webmail) service
HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are an homage to HTML), the first webmail service, was launched. -
GOOGLE!
Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online. -
Internet-based file-sharing gets its roots
In 1998 as well, Napster launched, opening up the gates to mainstream file-sharing of audio files over the internet. -
BUBBLE BURST
2000 was the year of the dotcom collapse, resulting in huge losses for legions of investors. Hundreds of companies closed, some of which had never turned a profit for their investors. The NASDAQ, which listed a large number of tech companies affected by the bubble, peaked at over 5,000, then lost 10% of its value in a single day, and finally hit bottom in October of 2002. -
Wikipedia is launched
ne of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media. -
VoIP goes mainstream
Skype is released to the public, giving a user-friendly interface to Voice over IP calling. -
SOCIAL NETWORKING BECOMES MORE POPULAR
, MySpace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social network at one time (though it has since been overtaken by Facebook) -
Social Media and Digg
Social media–sites and web applications that allow its users to create and share content and to connect with one another–started around this period. -
Facebook
Facebook is created. Was orginally only open to college students and was called "The Facebook", rather than just "facebook" -
YouTube – streaming video for the masses
Youtube lauches becoming the most succesful video sharing site. -
Mobile
increasing populararity in people using their phones to browse the internet. -
Internet Election
The first "Internet election" took place in 2008 with the U.S. Presidential election. It was the first year that national candidates took full advantage of all the Internet had to offer. Hillary Clinton jumped on board early with YouTube campaign videos. Virtually every candidate had a Facebook page or a Twitter feed, or both. -
ICANN policy changes
2009 brought about one of the biggest changes to come to the Internet in a long time when the U.S. relaxed its control over ICANN, the official naming body of the Internet (they’re the organization in charge of registering domain names). -
