Timeline: ryan parker history of the internet

Oct 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency

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

Oct 1, 1970

An arpanet network was established

Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the ' interface message prosseser" computers used to connect the network) in 1970 was created

Oct 1, 1971

E-Mail was first developed

Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the desicion to use the "@" symbol to seperate the username from the computer name (which later on became the domain name

Oct 2, 1974

The beginning of TCP/IP

A proposal was published to link Apra-like networks together into a so-called " inter-network", which would have no central control and would workaround a transmission control protocal ( which eventualy became TCP/IP)

Apr 4, 1975

Microsoft is born

microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1975

Apr 1, 1976

Apple is created

Apple is created in a garage by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Oct 2, 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.

Oct 2, 1978

Spam is born

The first unsolicited commercial email message ( later known as spam

Oct 2, 1979

MUD - The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted

The precursor to world of warcraftand 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.

Oct 3, 1984

The domain system was created

The first domain name servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made adresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy to remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress

Oct 3, 1990

Wold Wide Web protocals finished

The code for the worled 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

Oct 3, 1991

First web page created

Brought some major innovations to the world of 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.