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Keyboards are created.
The invention of the modern computer keyboard sprung from the invention of the typewriter. It was Christopher Latham Sholes who, in 1868, patented the typewriter that we commonly use today. Soon after, the Remington Company mass began marketing the first typewriters starting in 1877. https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-computer-keyboard-1991402 -
Flat screens were created
The first production flat-panel display was the Aiken tube, developed in the early 1950s and produced in limited numbers in 1958. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_monitor -
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Intel is invented.
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel -
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 "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
Touch screens are invented.
Resistive touchscreens are invented. Although capacitive touchscreens were designed first, they were eclipsed in the early years of touch by resistive touchscreens. American inventor Dr. G. Samuel Hurst developed resistive touchscreens almost accidentally. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/from-touch-displays-to-the-surface-a-brief-history-of-touchscreen-technology/ -
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
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). -
Microsoft is inevnted.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft -
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 known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD – 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 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 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. -
Dell is created.
Dell Inc. was a multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas and, along with Dell EMC, is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, one of the largest technology companies in the world with 138,000 employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell -
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. -
Yahoo is invented.
Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo! -
Google is created.
Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google -
Netflix is created
Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix -
Wikipedia is invented.
There was considerable resistance on the part of Nupedia's editors and reviewers to the idea of associating Nupedia with a wiki-style website. Sanger suggested giving the new project its own name, Wikipedia, and Wikipedia was soon launched on its own domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia -
Youtube is invented.
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
