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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 -
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) -
Talkomatic
created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. Link text -
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 MacKenzie. -
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 -
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. -
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 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. -
First Online Music Store
The Internet Underground Music Archive was started in 1993, allowing users to download individual songs. -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
Wikipedia was born
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name, a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia. Link text to add a link https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&biw=1600&bih=745&q=who+made+wikipedia&oq=who+made+wiki&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l3j0i22i30k1l7.4287.16319.0.18256.52.27.1.0.0.0.199.1847.18j5.25.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..36.14.899.0..0i67k1j0i46i67k1j46i67k1j0i131k1.49.WwduFqfiv9k -
Online Propaganda
Propaganda is very prevalent online with Isis having a twitter account and last years president election.
