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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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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
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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). -
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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Laptop HistoryThe Gavilan is considered the first functional laptop, created by Manny Fernandez.
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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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Microsoft: Wikipedia
A series of operating systems created by Microsoft. -
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 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. -
It is the official website of ESPN and covers all things sports-related.
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mlb.com: Wikipediamlb.com is the official site of major league baseball, which covers MLB news, and contains the sport's rules.
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Yahoo!: WikipediaCreated at Stanford by Jerry Yang and David Filo as a guide of other websites.
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Wikipedia: Internet ExplorerIt was a web browser created as a part of Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
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Wikipedia: GoogleGoogle was created as a search engine. It is a corporation that specializes in internet-related goods and services.
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Wikipedia: YoutubeIt was made so people could freely share videos of whatever they wanted. Its headquarters is located in San Bruno, California.
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Wikipedia: BingBing is a web search engine from Microsoft.
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It is a sandbox indie game created my Marcus Perrson. It is an online game and is my favorite video game.
