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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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First long distance Connection
Long Distance Connection
Using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. -
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
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-
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-
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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
ARCNET (Attached Resource Computer Network)
ARCNET
ARCNET (Attached Resource Computer Network) the first commercial network, is developed by Datapoint Corporation. -
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
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 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 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. -
Internet Worm Spreads
Internet Virus
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
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
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. -
Yahoo Goes Public
Yahoo Yahoo! is the premier digital media company, creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. -
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Neopets is created
NeopetsTwo British students created a virtual pet Web site called Neopets which Combines people's love for taking care of fictional critters with the enjoyment of puzzle games. -
Wikipedia was created
Wikipedia When Nupedia was created in 2000, the plan was for it to feature expert-written, peer-reviewed content. But it suffered from a major problem: a lack of speed. So a new model, Wikipedia, was created a year later -
Webkinz is now online
Webkinz
Webkinz was first made and offered in 2005 by the Ganz Corporation.They are very adorable stuffed animals that kids everywhere love. The webkinz site is an online gaming site that is educational for the kids. -
First Youtube video
First Youtube Video
The first video to ever be uploaded onto the site was titled Me at the zoo. It is a video of one of the founders of YouTube, Jawed Karim, at the San Diageo Zoo. -
Facebook was created
Facebook
Facebook was founded by former-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (while at Harvard) who ran it as one of his hobby projects with some financial help from Eduardo Saverin.
