Jake Vitagliano's History of the Internet

By Jvitagliano1

  • Advanced Research Products Agency [ARPA] is created

    Advanced Research Products 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 be the internet>

  • An Arpanet network was established

    An Arpanet network was established
    Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN 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.

  • The beginning of TCP\IP

    The beginning of TCP\IP
    A proposal was publishedto link ARPA-like networks together into a so called "inter-network" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocal[which eventully 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 hobbyists

  • Spam is born

    Spam is born
    The first unsolicited commercial email message [later known as spam], was sent out to 600 Califirnia Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk

  • MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
    The procurser to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD. MUDs were entirely text-based virtual words, combining elements of role playing games, interactive, 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 DNS 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 conveted it to the IP adress automatically.

  • World Wide Web protocals finished

    World Wide Web protocals finished
    The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, baseb on his proposal from the year before, along with the stadards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs

  • First web page finished

    First web page finished
    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 web was.

  • Amazon is created

    Amazon is created
    Timeline History Amazon.comAmazon.com is an American e-commerse site based in Seattle. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, and luanched in 1995, Amazon was an online bookstore before diversifying its products.

  • Ebay is created

    Ebay is created
    Lessons from the Creation of eBayPierre Omidyar got the idea to create Ebay in 1995 after selling a broken laser pointer over the internet. Now it is a shopping hub worth almost 9 billion dollars.

  • Google is created

    Google is created
    Early historyGoogle started as a research project in 1996 by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin who at the time were Ph.D students at stanford univercity.

  • Yahoo is created

    Yahoo is created
    Yahoo! Inc.Since Yahoo went oublic in 1996, this leading global Internet communications, commerse and media company's rise has been nothing short of meteoric.

  • The first mobile phone with internet access

    The first mobile phone with internet access
    The first mobile phone with Internet accessThe first moblie phone with internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000 communicator. It was introduced in Finland back in 1996, but did not sell well becuase of the high price.

  • Criagslist is created

    Criagslist is created
    CRAIGSLISTBack in 1999 Craig Newmark decided to make a website for free classified ads for the San Francisco bay area. Now it spans 450 cities and 50 countries.

  • Facebook was founded

    Facebook was founded
    At Last -- The Full Story Of How Facebook Was FoundedThe origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19 year old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore in 1004.

  • YouTube is created

    YouTube is created
    Who Invented YouTube?YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park.

  • The creation of Twitter

    The creation of Twitter
    TwitterTwitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and by July it was launched.

  • Bing is Created by Microsoft

    Bing is Created by Microsoft
    BingBing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1st 2009.