The History Of The Internet

By JasmineElizabeth

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet was the first network to run on packet switching technology.Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.

  • Ebooks

    Project Gutenberg, was a global effort to make books and documents in the public domain available electronically–for free–in a variety of eBook and electronic formats.

  • Email

    Email was first developed in 1971 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).

  • Spam is Born

    1978 is also the year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.

  • The First Bulletin Board

    The first bulletin board system (BBS) was developed during a blizzard in Chicago in 1978.

  • Usenet

    In 1979 usenet was created by two college graduate students. It was the first internet-based discussion system, allowing people from around the globe to discuss the same topics by posting public messages categorized by news groups.

  • :-)

    The first emoticon was born. Scott Fahlman proposed using :-) after a joke.

  • Internet Relay Chat

    Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first deployed, paving the way for real-time chat and the instant messaging programs we use today.

  • First Major Internet Worm

    "The Morris Worm" was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large areas of the internet.

  • First Webcam

    The first webcam was created at Cambridge University and its only purpose was to monitor a coffee maker to that students could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.

  • 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.

  • The Birth of Google

    Google revolutionalised the way we find information today.

  • Illegal Downloads of Music

    Napster launched, the first file sharing website.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia was created, paving the way for collective web content.

  • Facebook Created

    Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook". Now it is the most popular social network available.

  • Youtube

    Youtube brought free online video sharing to masses of people.

  • Hulu Launched

    Hulu was first launched in 2007, a joint project to make popular TV shows available online.