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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 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 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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In 2010 Google estimated the Internet to be 5 million Terabytes. View Link
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Ddi you know that at this current rate of the internet it needs 50 Million Horsepower to keep it up and running. View Link
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The internet has about 637 million websites and 250 million of those are blogs. view link
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About 81% of the emails sent everyday are spam. Thats about 200 billion! view link
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There are approximately 4,200 domain names made every hour which is about 36 million each year. view link
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Out of the 7 billion people on the planet 2.4 billion people use the internet view link
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In China it has a camp to help people with there addiction to the internet view link
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The video Gangnam Style by PSI is the most viewed video on youtube with 2.4 billion views view link
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The mayjority of the internet traffic is not cuased by humans, but by bots and malware view link
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Everyday 30,000 websites are hacked everyday by cyber criminals, they use a software that helps them find easy websites to get into.
