Timeline: Michael Welsh History of the Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack.

Jan 1, 1965

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

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 BBN (the company that created the
"interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.

Jan 1, 1971

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)

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 (which eventually became TCP/IP).

Jan 1, 1977

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

Jan 1, 1978

Spam is born

The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), 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 (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining
elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.

Jan 1, 1979

First laptop Invented.

Laptop created
In 1979 it was created by a

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 proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed 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, 1985

AOL.com comes online

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

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.

Jan 1, 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.

Jan 1, 1994

Yahoo is created.

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

Sep 4, 1998

Google was created

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

Jan 1, 2003

Skype was invented

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

Jan 1, 2004

Facebook is created.

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

Feb 1, 2005

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.