Oliver's History of the Internet Timeline

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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.
  • Period: to

    Timespan

  • 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"

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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