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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of 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) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
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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", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first Personal Computer Modem is 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 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 laptop
Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. <ahref='http://http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htm' >First laptop info</a> <a href='http://http://s3files.core77.com/ -
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 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. -
Beginning of Wifi
Initially meant for cashier systems the first wireless products were brought on the market under the name WaveLAN with speeds of 1Mbps/2Mbps. Vic Hayes who is the inventor of Wi-Fi has been named 'father of Wi-Fi' and was with his team involved in designing standards such as IEEE 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. wifi info <ahref='http://http://images.apple.com/support/assets/images/assistant/shared/wifi_lg.png' >wifi pic</a> -
First smartphone with internet
Simon was the first smartphone.The touchscreen (monochrome) had icons you tapped, or poked with a stylus, for e-mail, calculator, calendar, clock, and a game called Scramble in which you moved squares around the screen until you formed a picture. info
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First Search Engines
By December of 1993, three full fledged bot fed search engines had surfaced on the web: JumpStation, the World Wide Web Worm, and the Repository-Based Software Engineering (RBSE) spider. JumpStation gathered info about the title and header from Web pages and retrieved these using a simple linear search. info <a href='http://http://image.spreadshirt.net/image-server/v1/products/5454475/views/1,width=280,height=280.png/jumps -
Online Shopping
Amazon.com started selling each and everything online, and along with that Jeff Bezos starts first commercial-free 24 hour, internet-only radio stations. Online auction started by eBay. info <ahref='http://startronics.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/800px-EBay_Logo_svg.60171113_std.png' >pic</a> -
First Social Network Site created
SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists. Each of these features existed in some form before SixDegrees, of course. Profiles existed on most major dating sites and many community sites. <ahref='http://http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html' >info</a> <ahref='http://http://blog.afridesign.com/wpcontent/uploads/2010/09/sixdegrees_logo.jpg' >pic</a> -
First Internet Crime
Mohammad Nizami, 24, who denies the charges, was quoted as saying, “I have been raised to be loyal to the King and the homeland,” noting that he was unable to understand the situation. He expressed his surprise at having been charged with slandering the King, stressing that he was preparing for his doctorate degree and could not afford time or attention to spend on political affairs.
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iTunes
Apple debuted iTunes alongside iDVD and the CD-RW-enabled Power Macs. While it wasn’t exactly a show-stopper (though 275,000 copies were downloaded in the first week), the "world’s best and easiest to use ‘jukebox’ software" definitely raised the bar for music players on the Mac, which were relatively sparse and rather pricey (SoundJam cost $40).
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Beginning of Streaming
In 2006, Ipsos MediaCT began using its MOTION program to measure trends in Internet consumption of streaming video.YouTube is the website that has developed the corner on the market in streaming video. This site has grown exponentially in the past few years, globally distributing millions of memes and home videos posted by Internet users. info
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First Tweet Ever
You know all of the primitive, annoying things people do when they first join Twitter, like tweeting two words of an incomplete sentence, or posting the single most monosyllabic expression of the thing they are doing at the moment. That's exactly what the very beginning of Twitter looks like for its creators, too. And for fundamentally the same reasons: They didn't know how to use this thing
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