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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Found a way computers can comunicate with eachother in case of nuclear attack. -
An Arpanet network was established
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
The network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN was created in 1970 -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
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First Personal Comuter was invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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MUD- the first 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
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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
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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
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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
brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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Amazon
Amazon was createdAmazon, acompany which started out as an online bookstore has now become on of the worlds largest onlline stores -
Netflicks
Netflicks was created Netflicks, the online video/movie rental company went online when they were first founded in 1997. -
Google.com was first launched
Google was created
The World famous search engine used to browse the web was created. -
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Youtube
[Youtube was created](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Youtube created) The Video sharing website youtube was created -
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Bing
Bing Search Engine Another large and worldly popular search engine, Bing went public on the internet in 2009.
