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  ARPA Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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  computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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  Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN is created
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  Ray Tomlinson develops email and the @ symbol
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  Proposal to link Arpa-like networks together into a "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol
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  Invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington 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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  Known as MultiUser Dungeon. The earliest form of multiplayer games. Entirely text based and combined role play and online chat
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  The first emoticon was used. Many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979. Scott Fahlman proposed using :-) after a joke in 1982.
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  The domain name system made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly. 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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  Steve Jobs introduces first Macintosh a personal computer
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  Tim Berners-Lee wrote the code for the World Wide Web. It based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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  First web page created to explain what a web page was
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  Netflix a popular movie streaming site, is created.
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  Mark Zuckerberg founds facebook, a now popular social media site
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  Reddit a social media/ news site is created
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  Twitter another famous social media is created
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  Snapchat another famous social media is created
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  The "Great Meme War" was an internet war that tried to sway public opinion of the presidential candidates using memes
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Great_Meme_War