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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a new way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Computers in STanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on whart would one day become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interfacemessage processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970w was created -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into so-called "internet work" 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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet useres by Gary Thurek -
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 multi user 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 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 system name 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 on the internet users to type in an easy- to-remember domain name then converted it to the IP address automatically -
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 URL's -
First Web page was created
Brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. The first web page was created and, much like th efirst email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Nike first website
Nike's first web site was created in support of their efforts at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta. -
Google is made a domain
googleGoogle.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
Myspace was created
myspaceMyspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.In June 2012, Myspace had 25 million unique U.S. visitors. -
Facebook created
facebook In August 2005, thefacebook was officially called Facebook and the domain facebook.com was purchased for a reported $200,000. -
Meez came about
meez Meez launched on March 28, 2006. Currently, Meez has 3 million unique users, who average around 60 hours per month on the site. There are 13 million registered Meez users, 90% of which are in the United States.[1] Meez advertisers have included Nike, Rocawear, the NBA, and the NHL. -
Formspring.me,
Spring.me is an interest-based social Q&A website, launched in November 2009, and created to allow users to relate their ideas and opinions on any topic. Formspring allows its users to set up a profile page, follow other users and ask questions -
Instagram
instagramOn March 5, 2010, Systrom closed a $500,000 seed funding round from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn.[16] Josh Riedel joined the company as Community Manager.[17] Shayne Sweeney joined in November 2010 as an engineer and Jessica Zollman was hired as a Community Evangelist in August 2011. -
Ask fm
ask fm
Ask.fm is a Latvia-based social networking website where users can ask other users questions, with the option of anonymity. The site was launched on June 16, 2010.[3]
Founded as a rival to Formspring -
Snapchat
As of July 2013, the interface of Snapchat, on both the Android and iOS versions, consists of a large circular button located at the center of the bottom portion of the screen, flanked on the sides by a picture of a three-dimensional box on the left hand side, and a two-dimensional striped box on the right hand side. Snapchat versions 1.0 to 4.0 originally had a blue coat covering these three buttons, although the blue coat was discarded in version 5.0 -
online shopping
shoppingOnline shopping is the process in which a consumer pays for a product or service via the internet. This involves use of a credit card which is used to pay for the products and or services. The history of shopping dates back in the UK as from 1979 by Michael Aldrich of Redifon Computers. He connected a colour video to a real-time deal processing adding machine over a domestic phone line together with demonstrated online shopping. From 1980 he sold his systems in the UK near online.
