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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 seperate the user name from the computer name (which later became the domain name)
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A proposal was published to link arpa-like networks tigether 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 Hayles and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The fisrt 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 visual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.
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first laptop
The first ever laptop computer is designed -
The fisrt 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 -) propsed 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 serversallowed internet users to type in a easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically.
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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 standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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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.
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First internet photoThe first ever image was posted on the internet, a photo of a comedy band 'Les Horribles Cernettes'
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smartphonethe Simon Personal Communicator is released, allowing access to email and other smartphone features
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runnerin this year, the iconic website Homestar Runner was created.
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GoogleGoogle.com is created.
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neilThe band Lemon Demon released 'Clown Circus', their first album, onto the internet.
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youtube
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megaupload
Popular file sharing site MegaUpload was taken down on this date by the FBI. -
psythe viral music video 'Gangnam Style' becomes the most viewed video on the internet on this date.
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gamegrumps
On this date, Jon Jafari left the comedy duo Game Grumps to pursue his own work. His place with Arin Hanson was taken by Daniel Avidan.
