Timeline: Russell Bilik's History Of The Internet Timeline

Oct 1, 1958

Physicist Invents First Video Game

Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. Link text https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm

Jan 1, 1962

Arpa is created

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

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, 1970

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, 1973

Talkomatic

created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. Link text

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, 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, 1983

The Internet was invented

The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Link text to add a link https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&biw=1600&bih=794&q=who+invented+the+internet+and+what+year&oq=who+invented+the+internet+and+what+year&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30k1.2716.10699.0.11163.14.14.0.0.0.0.217.1287.11j2j1.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.14.1285...0i22i10i30k1.0.bdJno-GOjpU

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, 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, 1993

First Online Music Store

The Internet Underground Music Archive was started in 1993, allowing users to download individual songs.

Jan 1, 1995

Online Dating

The first online dating service (www.Match.com) was created in 1995 and, as of 2002, has had 26.6 million people registered. The services were initially very simple and only matched people based on profiles of likes and dislikes but now many dating services have evolved, having specific requirements for memberships. Link text https://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~smathews/history.html

Apr 3, 1995

First Book bought online

Wainwright was at work at Kaleida Labs, one of the early Web's joint ventures between Apple/IBM. He'd been given a beta invite to a fledgling company a company that was trying to make a go of selling books over a fledgling Internet. And he found himself in want of some reading material. So he ordered a book over, he recalls, a T-1 connection.

Jan 1, 1997

First Social Media

The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. Enter Link text to add a link https://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html

Jan 1, 1997

Creation of the dark web

TOR, the largest darknet, was developed by three scientists, Paul Syversin, Mike Reed, and David Goldshlag. It was originally designed and implemented by the United States Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. Link text https://www.quora.com/Who-created-the-deep-web