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Found a way that computes 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" was created.
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson who made the decision to use the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name
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A proposal was published to link arpa like networks together
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbiests
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The first unsolicited commercial email message was send out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk
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The precursor of war of warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and it was called MUD (multiuser dungeon) MUDS were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of roleplay 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 :-) as a joke rather than the original -)
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The first domain name serves (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 an 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 the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URL's
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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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