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Found a way that computeres can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the internet
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Network between Harvard, MIT and BBN (the company that created the "interface messade processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer (which later on became the domain name)
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Computers are used more freelyThe first demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines goes underway, and the Internetworking Working Group (INWG) was created to adress the need for establishing agreed upon protocols.
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Global NetworkingThe first international connections to the ARPANET between the University of London (England) and the Royal Radar Establishment (Norway).
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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)
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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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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The precurser 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.
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BITNETBITNET (Because It's Time NETwork) provides electronic mail and listenerservers to distribute information, as well as file transfers.
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The first emoticaon 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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The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important it that it made adresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress automatically.
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WWWMore than 5,000 hosts and 241 news groups have been created. NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computing power for all.
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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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1991 brought some major innovations to the wotld of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what an email what email was, its purpose was to explain what the Wrld Wide Web was.
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multimediaOne million hosts, 4,000 news groups have been crated. Internet (ISOC) is charted.
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CommercitizationARPANET celebrates it's 25th Birthday. Shopping in malls and banks arrives to the internet. The US Senate and House provides information servers
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MIcrosoftThe WWW browser war begins, fought primarily between NETscape and Microsoft, has rushed a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.
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ARINThe American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the geographical ares handled by Network Solutions (InterNIC) Starting March 1998
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network solutionsNetwork Solutions register its 2 millionth domian on.
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LRHSDLenape Regional High School District launches its first web page.
