Timeline: Kyle Quagliero's History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.

Oct 29, 1969

computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time

The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.

Jan 1, 1970

An Arpanet network was established

Network between the Harvard, MIT, and BBn (the company that created the "interface messenger processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 were created.

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)

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).

Jan 1, 1977

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.

Jan 1, 1978

Spam is born

The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.

Jan 1, 1979

MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games were 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

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

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

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

Jan 1, 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.

Jan 1, 1993

ESPN's website was created

ESPN
ESPN's website was created. ESPN is a very popular sports news website and TV station.

Jan 1, 1994

Yahoo! Geocities was created

Yahoo! Geocities
Yahoo! Geocities was one of the first social media sites uploaded on the web.

Jan 1, 1994

Yahoo! was invented

Yahoo!
Yahoo! was invented. It is a very common search engine and it has email.

Jan 1, 1998

PayPal was invented

PayPal
PayPal was invented. PayPal is a very popular online paying site.

Sep 4, 1998

Google was founded

Google
Google was created. It is one of the most common search engines today.

Jan 1, 2001

Easybib was created

Easybib
Easybib is a website that creates bibliographies for a website, book, etc. of your choosing.

Jan 15, 2001

Wikipedia was created

Wikipedia
Wikipedia was created. Wikipedia is a very common website for researching. It has many articles and it considers itself an online encyclopedia.