Will's history of the internet timeline

By Wbergin

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created

    Advanced Research Projects Agency (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

    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

    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

    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)

  • The beginning of TCP/IP

    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 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

    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

    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 :-)
    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 domain name system was created

    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

  • Aol was created

    Aol was created
    aol
    Aol was a program tha made it easier for people to use the internet

  • World Wide Web protocols finished

    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

    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

  • netflix was created

    netflix was created
    netflix
    Netflix was created so that people could have movies and tv shows mailed to them, notm streamed from home.

  • espn website was created

    espn website was created
    espn
    espn, the popular sports channel, made a website with all thier news on it

  • google was created

    google was created
    google time line
    google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

  • steam was launched

    steam was launched
    steam
    steam is a game launching program on the computer used by many

  • facebook was invented

    facebook was invented
    face book was invented
    face book was the first social media site to be widely used

  • youtube was created

    youtube was created
    youtube
    youtube was created as the first video sharing website

  • first youtube video was posted

    first youtube video was posted
    first youtube video
    co-founder of youtube, Jawed Karim uploaded the first YouTube video tittled “Me at the zoo.”

  • twitter was created

    twitter was created
    twitter
    twitter was created and is now one of the lagest social media outlets

  • soundcloud was invented

    soundcloud was invented
    soundcloud
    sound cloud was made so tha people could share their music with the world