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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to 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 to the network) was created -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the disision to use the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name (which later became the domain name). -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together in a so-called "inner-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventual became TCP/IP). -
The First Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented bu Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, Arpanet users by Gary Thurk. -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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
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 MacKenzie. -
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 automatically. -
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 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. -
Yahoo creatoin
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The headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo. It started at Stanford University. -
History of google
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It began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The original homepage was a simple design because the company founders did not know much about HTML -
Creation of wikipedia
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It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. They launched Wikipedia using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered in 1995 by Ward Cunningham. -
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YouTube was made
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It is a website made to share videos, made by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim. It is based in San Bruno California. -
Quizlet was made
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Quizlet is an online learning tool created by Andrew Sutherland. In November 2015, Quizlet has over 100 million users. -
Google Docs
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It is a free Web-based app where documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored. Files can be accessed from any computer. -
History of Bing
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Bing was made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It is the current web search engine from Microsoft. -
Creation of Kahoot
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Create, play and share learning games for any subject. Microsoft owns kahoot. -
