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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
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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 -
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) -
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists -
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
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 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
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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
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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 -
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. -
bbc The worlds first web browser was created in 1992 called mosaic, later called netscape
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cbsnews the first picture was put on the internet and it was of the singing group Les Horribles Cernettes
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eBay eBay was started in 1995 as a site so that people could sell personal items
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googleGoogle first started in Stanford and is used by the the school for more than a year before crashing.
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howstuffworks AOL (america online) starts with the first private internet based messaging system
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Skype Skype, a service that allowes you to see people over the internet via webcam, is created in 2003.
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wanttoknowit Facebook was started in 2004 under www.thefacebook.com and was only for harvard students
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YouTube YouTube was created in 2005, it is a site that lets you share original videos with the world.
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140characters Twitter is created in 2006 and was an sms based system to tell other people what you were doing.
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Techcress In 2012 75.6% of the intire world population uses the internet.
