Jacobs History of the Internet Timeline

By Jdelega
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
  • computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

    computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

    The first hosts on what would one day become the internet.
  • An arpanet network was established

    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 was first developed

    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)
  • The beginning of TCP/IP

    The beginning of TCP/IP

    A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP).
  • The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented

    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 hobbyist.
  • Spam is born

    Spam is born

    The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was send out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    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, fiction, and online chat.
  • The first emoticon :-)

    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 domain name system was created

    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 addres counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then coverted it to the IP address automatically
  • World Wide Web protocols finished

    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 created 1991

    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.
  • When Wifi was made

    When Wifi was made

    Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a wireless LAN (WLAN) network, mainly using the 2.4 gigahertz (12 cm) UHF and 5 gigahertz (6 cm) SHF ISM radio bands.
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  • How Netflix works.

    How Netflix works.

    When Reed Hastings launched Netflix in 1997, his idea didn't make sense to a lot of people. DVD players had only been on the market for a few months, and many families were still using VHS tapes to watch movies.
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  • Paypal: invisible money.

    Paypal: invisible money.

    PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
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  • When Google was public

    When Google was public

    Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
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  • When Wikipedia came out

    When Wikipedia came out

    The history of Wikipedia formally began with the launch of Wikipedia on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993,[2] but the concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia
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  • How Facebook was made

    How Facebook was made

    In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, three Harvard University students, launched a Web site designed to put students in touch with one another, share their photos and meet new people.
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  • When YouTube was made

    When YouTube was made

    YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
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  • When twitter became a thing

    When twitter became a thing

    Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
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  • Instagram comes alive

    Instagram comes alive

    Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app.
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  • Snapchat goes wild

    Snapchat goes wild

    Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown[3] when they were students at Stanford University.
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