Michael Welsh History of the Internet Timeline

By mwelsh

  • 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.

  • First long distance connection made!

    First long distance connection made!
    First loIn 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT
    researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill,
    connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32
    in California.ng Distance connection

  • 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

  • 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.

  • MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

    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.

  • First laptop Invented.

    First laptop Invented.
    Laptop created
    In 1979 it was created by a

  • 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.

  • AOL.com comes online

    AOL.com comes online
    AOL
    Created in 1985, first known as Q-link.

  • 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 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.

  • Yahoo is created.

    Yahoo is created.
    Yahoo\
    Founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang

  • Google was created

    Google was created
    Google
    Created by Larry page and Sergey Brin on September 4th, 1998

  • Skype was invented

    Skype was invented
    Skype
    Skype was invented in 2003 by a man named Niklaz Zenstrom for Sweden.

  • Facebook is created.

    Facebook is created.
    Facebook
    Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, in 2004.

  • Youtube was created.

    Youtube was created.
    Youtube
    Created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawid Karem. The Creators earned 1.65 billion dollars from the search engine Google from selling them.

  • Twitter comes online.

    Twitter comes online.
    Twitter
    Twitter, which was created by a 10-person startup in San Francisco called Obvious in 2005.

  • New search engine Bing is born.

    New search engine Bing is born.
    Bing
    Bing continues to be a very commonly used as a popular search engine.