Timeline: Matt Balzan's History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1926

Tv was Created

Tv was created The first Television was invented by John Laggie Baird in England

Apr 15, 1955

First McDonalds opened

First McDonalds was openedThe first McDonalds was opened in Des Plaines, IL. This changed how people ate in America

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency

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 Harvard, MIT, and BBM was created in 1970

Jan 1, 1971

Email was first developed

Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name

Apr 3, 1973

First Cell Phone was released

First mobile phoneThe First cell phone was released.

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

Jan 1, 1977

The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented

The modem was invented by Denis Hayed and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists

Jan 1, 1978

Spam is Born

The first uncolicited commercial email message, was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk

Jan 1, 1979

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. 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 propesed using :-} after a joke, rather than the original -} proped by MacKenzie

Jan 1, 1984

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.

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.

Oct 8, 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.

Jul 5, 1994

Amazon was created

[Amazon was created](Amazon.com, Inc)Amazon was created by an American Entrepenuer named Jeff Bezos. Amazon changed shopping online. Instead of going to multiple websites to buy things, people just go to one to buy everything they need

Sep 4, 1998

Google was created

Google was foundedGoogle was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Jun 30, 2000

Verizon was founded

Verizon was founded Verizon was founded on June 30, 2000 because that is the date that Bell Atlantic Corporation broke off and split into different companies