kyle schmid History of the internet

By kschmid
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  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
    Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuckear attack.
  • Computers at Standford and UCLA connected for the first time

    Computers at Standford and UCLA connected for the first time
    The first hosts on what would one day day become the internet.
  • Email first develped

    Email first develped
    Developed by Ray tomlinson, who also made the dcision to use the @ symbol to separte interface message processor" (which later on became the domain name)
  • Creeper Virus

    Creeper Virus
    VirusThe Creeper virus, an experimental self-replicating program, is written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies.[2] Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. Creeper gained access via the ARPANET and copied itself to the remote system where the message, "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" was displayed. The Reaper program was later created to delete Creeper.
  • The beginning of TCP/IP

    The beginning of TCP/IP
    A propoasl was publish ed to link ARPA- Like networkls together into a so called "inter-network" which would have no entral 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 Hyes Dale Heatherinton and was intoroduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
  • Spam is Born

    Spam is Born
    The first unsolicited commercail email message (later known as spam) was sent out to 600 California ranet isers by Gary Thuerk
  • MUD

    MUD
    The earlies form of multiplayer games was debuted
  • The first Laptop was created

    The first Laptop was created
    LaptopThe laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a tiny computer screen built into it. It was invented by Osborne Computers.
  • The first emoticon

    The first emoticon
    The first emoticon was used while many people credit kevin mackenzie with the invention of the emotion in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the orginal -) proped 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 address counterarts 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 were finished

    World wide web protocols were finished
    The code for the world wide web was written by Tim Berners Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, akibg with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
  • First Web Page created

    First Web Page created
    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 expain what email was, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was.
  • Amazon was created

    Amazon was created
    AmazonJeffrey P. Bezos found Amazon in 1994. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international multibillion dollar electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online service in the world.
  • The year Ebay was created

    Ebay eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals. .ASP is a key metric in determining eBay's transaction fees, so increasing the ASP became an important item
  • Google began

    Google began
    GoogleGoogle was invented by two Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were studying computer science at Stanford University in California. These future tech titans came to create the world’s most popular search engine via very different paths. -
  • Netflix was created

    Netflix was created
    netflixNetflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is the world's largest online DVD movie rental service offering more than 26,000,000 members access to more than 100,000 titles. Our appeal and success are built on providing the most expansive selection of DVDs, an easy way to choose movies and fast, free delivery.
  • Surreptitious Sircam was started

     Surreptitious Sircam was started
    VirusesSircam appeared in July 2001 on PCs running Windows 95, 98, and Me. The worm appeared in e-mail in-boxes with an attachment; the body of the message was in Spanish or English. Typical greetings included "Hi! How are you?" and "Hola como estas?" If you launched the attachment, Sircam installed itself on the infected computer, then grabbed random documents and sent them out to e-mail addresses it captured from your address book. It also occasionally deleted files and filled the infected computer's
  • Itunes was created

    Itunes was created
    ItunesItunes was created by Apples CEO Steve Jobs in 2002. He created the app with the idea of helping his business thrive.
  • Facebook was created

    Facebook was created
    FacebookFacebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
  • When Google Earth was created

    When Google Earth was created
    Google EarthGoogle Earth was originally called the Keyhole Viewer, which was created by a group of developers at a company called Keyhole that was acquired by Google in 2004.
  • The year Youtube was created

    The year Youtube was created
    youtubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated...
  • Falcon Northwest Tiki came out

    Falcon Northwest Tiki came out
    FalconThe Falcon is one of the best computers out right now, and is widely known to be the start of a new generation of the PC exsperiece.