Timeline: Josh Walton's History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1868

Frirst QWERTY Keyboard

Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard for typewriters in 1968 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/01/the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/

Jan 1, 1910

Analytical Machine Created

Charles Babbage built a machine that was able to perform basic calculations http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/analyten.htm

Jan 1, 1956

First Hard Drive

The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

Jan 1, 1962

ARPA is Created

Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/99HISTORYCD-ARPA-History.HTM

Jan 1, 1964

Computer Mouse Invented

A WW2 Veteran invented a primitive mouse in 1964 http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/04/inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88

Oct 29, 1969

Computers at Standford and UCLA Connected for the First Time

The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/birthplace-of-the-internet-celebrates-111333

Jan 1, 1970

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 http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm

Jan 1, 1971

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) http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html

Jan 1, 1974

The Beginning of TCP/IP

A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP) http://history-computer.com/Internet/Maturing/TCPIP.html
http://history-computer.com/Internet/Maturing/TCPIP.html

Jan 1, 1974

The first PC Modem Invented

The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-first-ever-email--the-first-tweet--and-12-other-famous-internet-firsts-181209886.html

Jan 1, 1979

SPAM Born

The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. http://www.themarysue.com/first-spam-email/

Jan 1, 1979

MUD - The Earliest Form of Multiplayer Games was Created

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, and online chat. http://www.livinginternet.com/d/di_major.htm

Jan 1, 1982

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 http://mashable.com/2011/09/20/emoticon-history/#EZLrCTUFpqqC

Jan 1, 1984

The Domain Name 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 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. http://gcn.com/Blogs/Tech-Trivia/2011/08/First-registered-domain-name.aspx

Jan 1, 1990

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 http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet

Jan 1, 1991

First Web Page 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. http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/185788651/the-first-web-page-amazingly-is-lost

Jul 18, 1992

First Picture Uploaded on Internet

The first picture ever uploaded on the web was posted by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on behalf of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/18/les-horribles-cernettes/