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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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. -
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
Computer Virus Wikipedia Page
The first computer virus, called "The Creeper", was created and traveled through the ARPANET. -
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 (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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 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 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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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. -
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. -
History of Javascript
Javascript allows websites to run scripts and perform actions, increasing the interactivity of the internet. -
eBay Wikipedia Page
eBay was created which popularized online shopping. -
CSS Wikipedia Page
CSS was created to allow the easy styling of webpages. -
Google Company Page
Google Inc. is founded and Google is online for people to easily and effectively search the web. -
Wikipedia History Page
Wikipeadia was created to provide free information about almost anything on the internet. -
Facebook Wikipedia Page
Facebook was created which led to the popularizing of social media. -
YouTube Wikipedia Page
YouTube is created allowing the people to share video with people around the world for free. -
AWS Wikipedia Page
One of the first and biggest providers of cloud storage, leading the way to the almost entirely cloud-based storage we use today. -
Smartphone Wikipedia Page
The first smart phone of it's kind. Allowed people to constantly carry the internet around with them.
