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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
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. -
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). -
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
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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. -
Cyberspace
history of the internet timelineWilliam Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer -
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
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. -
ISOC is chartered
internet timelineThe Internet Society is chartered and the term "surfing the internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly -
NSF creates the InterNIC
internet timelineThe InterNIC provides sevices such as directory and database, registration, and information services -
World Wide Web Servers
history of the internet timelineAt the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to exist -
WWW Consortium
history of the internet timelineThe World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web -
NSFNET reverts back to a research network
internet timeline NSF establishes the very high speed Backbone Network Service also known as the vBNS and linked super-computing centers -
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30th anniversary of the internet
internet timelineMore than 5 million domain names are registered on the internet and about 100 million computers are connected online -
Skype
history of the internet timelineSkype announces that it has over 100 million registered users. -
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
history of the internet U.S House of Representatives passes the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
