Timeline: Walker Oettl's History of the 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.

Jan 1, 1964

Computer mouse invented

In 1968 Douglas C. Engelbart unveiled his invention from 4 years prior, the computer mouse.
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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 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, 1981

First Laptop

The laptop computer was invented and sold for about $1,795.
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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, 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.