History of the internet - by Shane Reid

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  • 1962

    1962
    Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.

  • 1969

    1969
    computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.

  • 1970

    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.

  • 1971

    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)

  • 1974

    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).

  • 1977

    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.

  • 1978

    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.

  • 1979

    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.

  • 1982

    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.

  • 1984

    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.

  • 1990

    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.

  • 1991

    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.