Timeline: Silvana Gordon's History of Internet Timeline

Jan 1, 1962

Advanced Research Projects Agency (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, 1971

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, 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 CaliforniaArpanet 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 wasdeveloped in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combiningelements 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 ofthe emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed byMacKenzie.

Jan 1, 1984

The domain name system was created

The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name systemwas 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 addressautomatically.

Nov 2, 1988

First Internet Virus was created

First Computer Virus
The first computer worm was released and it destoryed files and damaged systems.

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, 1992

Instant Messaging is developed

instant messaging
With more people on the internet, instant messaging was born.

Oct 22, 1996

Apple came out with it's website

First apple Website
The website was very basic unlike how it is today.

Sep 7, 1998

Google is found.

Google

Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Jan 1, 2000

Facebook is created

Facebook
Today, Facebook is the most popular social-networking site in the world, with every one person in fourteen using it.

Jan 1, 2001

Wikipedia is created.

Wiki
Wikipedia is created, and is used for information world wide.

Aug 29, 2004

Webkinz is created

First webkinz Website
On the first website, there is not much action going on and you can only click on a few things. Now, you can click on alot of stuff and the whole page is filled.