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In 1922 the British news station allowed people to look at the news on the internet.
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1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In 1994 Amazon was made and this allowed people to shop online.
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In 1995 Yahoo was made and this is basically and alternative to google.
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Paypal made in 1998 is an electronic money operating system and is an alternative to the normal checks and money orders.
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1998 Goolge was made and this revolutionized the way people search the internet.
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In 2001 Wikipedia was made and this is one of the first research databases.
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Myspace was made in 2003 and this is what kicked off social media.
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In 2004 Facebook started and this is still very popular even today and also made social media as popular as it is today.
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2005 Youtube was made and this allowed people to make videos with their friends and create a form of enterntainment.
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In August 2007 SoundCloud was made and allowed people to stream thier favorite music.