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Lauren Piatkowskis History of the Internet Timeline

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    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

    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

    An 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.
  • 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 (which later on became the domain name)
  • The beginning of TCP/IP-

    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 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.
  • The idea of google happend

    The idea of google happend
    googleLarry Page and Sergey Brin think of the idea of google a website with alot of information for people to have acess to.
  • Spam is born

    Spam is born
    The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
    Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
  • The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    The 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
    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 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

    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

    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 explain what the World Wide Web was.
  • Food purchases

    Food purchases
    pizzaThe first food purchace was pizza in 1994 from pizza hut.
  • Hotmail

    Hotmail
    hotmail
    Hotmail was created.
  • Yahoo was created

    Yahoo was created
    yahoo Yahoo was created and began running online,this web page had 3.4 billion web view a day.
  • Amazon

    Amazon
    amazon
    Amazon was created and people began online shopping.
  • Ebay

    Ebay
    EbayEbay was founded.
  • Barns and Nobel goes online

    Barns and Nobel goes online
    Barnes and NobelBarnes and Nobel published their first website and began experimenting on selling books online.
  • Google recognized

    GoogleGoogle was in the top 100 search engine websites of 1998.
  • Netfix was created

    Netfix was created
    netflixNetflix was created and began selling.
  • Youtube created

    Youtube created
    YoutubeYoutube was created. Youtube was created.