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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can communicate with each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
An Arpanet Network was established
Network between Harvard , MIT and BBN(The company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect the network) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
Made by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to seperate the username from the computer name. -
The Beginning of TCP/IP
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 (eventually became TCP/IP). -
Apple Inc. was created
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to create computers. Source -
The First Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and first introduced and sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD - The Earliest 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 elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction and online chat. -
The First Emoticon :-)
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 Kevin Mackenzie. -
The Domain Name System was Created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) where created in 1982. 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. -
The 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 in 1991
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. -
Online Advertisements Created
In 1993 the Global Network Navigator sold spots on their website to put a clickable advert on their page that would redirect you to a company's page. Source -
First Commercial Website Created
Tim O'Reilly Created the first commercial website in August,1993. It is called The Global Network Navigator (GNN) and its purpose was to navigate the internet with a paid subscription. Source -
The First Modern Social Network was Created
Six Degrees, the name of the website was a website where friends could make profiles and add eachother to talk and share pictures source -
Neflix was Created
Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph developed Netflix to offer online movie rental options. Source -
Google was Created
In 1998 two students, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin wanted to create a new search engine, so they worked out of a garage in Menlo Park, California to create google. Source -
Paypal was created
Paypal was created in 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery to have an online method of banking and paying for other online goods. Source -
Skype was Created
Skype was created in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis to share files and communicate Source -
Facebook is Created
Facebook is a modern social networking service launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg to talk with college friends, but turned into a very large social networking program. Source -
YouTube was Created
Chad Hurley and his coworkers created the website to be able to share videos with the world. The first video posted is called "Me at the zoo". Source
