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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
The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interfaec message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
Develope by Ray Tomlinson,who also made the decision the use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
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). -
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
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later know as spam), was sent out to California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD -nthe 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, and online chat. -
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. -
Adobe was created
adobe was created by john warnock and charles geschke in 1982 -
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 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. -
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
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. -
Google was created
Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
The Facebook was made
The facebook was created by 23 year old Mark Zuckerburg on feb. 4, 2004. Mark was still in Harvard University when he created The Facebook. -
Youtbe has been founded
YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was founded in February 2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web. -
Google buys Youtube
Google has agreed to buy San Bruno video-sharing site YouTube in an all-stock deal worth about $1.65 billion. -
Minecraft was created
Minecraft was publicly released for the PC on May 17, 2009, as a developmental alpha version and, after gradual updates, was published as a full release version on November 18, 2011.
