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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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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.
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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)
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-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)
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was
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LaptopThe first laptop computer available to the public was the Osborne 1.At the time of release it cost $1795. Later the internet would be added to this invention.
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The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of
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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.
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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
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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.
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wifi Wi-Fi was invented by NCR Corporation/AT&T (later on Lucent & Agere Systems) in the Netherlands. Its purpose was for cashier systems.
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yahoo Although Yahoo was invented in 1994, it only became available to the public in April of 1996. It is not only a seach engine but has features such as mail, news and a directory.
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YahooYahoo rejected an offer to buy Google for $1 million and now Google has grown to a $300 billion company. This is perhaps one of the most interesting financial losses of the IT industry.
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GoogleGoogle is one of the biggest internet browsers in the world and is now worth over $300 billion.
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Facebook Mark Zuckerberg launched a website he called Facebook. The website was designed for people to share information about himself.At first it was just used by people at Harvard University but is now one of the biggest social media sites in the world.
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TwitterTwitter was created by Jack Dorsey who wanted to creat a website for users to communicate with a small group of people. By 2009, Twitter had 20 million U.S visitors.
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GoogleGoogle bought YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars in shares. At this time there were 100 million videos viewed everyday, with an estimated 72 million people visiting the site every month.
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TumblrTumblr launched in February 2007, with the tagline "Blogging made easy". Tumblr was a fast expanding site with a 900% increase of users by the year 2011.
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Stats2,925,249,355 people all around the world used the internet in 2014. That means that 40.4% of the world's population were using the internet, which is an increase from 2013 in which 37.9% of the population were using the internet.
